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Bisnis.com, JAKARTA – In 2016, deep inside a Canadian mine, researchers discovered the world’s oldest body of water.

At a depth of about 3 kilometers (1.8 miles), this water is 2 billion years old.

The discovery pushes the date of the oldest known water back by at least 500 million years.

The previous record was held by water found in the same mine by the same team in 2013, which came from a depth of about 2.5 kilometers.

The mine is actually the deepest basalt metal mine in the world, as the search for copper, zinc and silver takes miners ever deeper into the earth’s crust.

As miners dig deeper, researchers are taking the opportunity to explore the mine further.

They analyzed the water they found by studying the gases trapped in it.

According to iflscience.com, gases such as helium and xenon can be trapped in water trapped in cracks in rock, and their measurement can indicate the age of the water.

“When people think of this water, they assume it must be a small amount of water trapped inside the rock,” said Professor Barbara Sherwood Lollar, who presented the discovery.

“These things are flowing at a rate of liters per minute and their volume of water is much larger than expected.” he added.

Moreover, the immense age of the water is not the only important discovery.

When the researchers analyzed the liquid, they found traces of life in it.

Although they didn’t find any real living bacteria, what they did find are the fingerprints of life.

From there, they were able to conclude that there were microbiological forms living in the water and for a very long time.

The fact that something could survive, and even thrive, in water so ancient and so deep inside the Earth has several important implications.

Not only can it tell us about life on Earth billions of years ago, but it can also aid in the search for life beyond this world.

Although rivers no longer flow on the surface of Mars, there are still pockets of water and ice below the surface.

It is not as deep as the water found in Canada, and it is possible that these pockets provide the necessary conditions for microorganisms to live.

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