Scientists uncover 'deep' connection between Earth and Mars

may be 140 million miles away from Earth, but scientists have uncovered a connection between the two distant worlds.

Researchers at the University of found a 2.4-million-year-old cycle of giant whirlpools in the our planet's deep-sea, which have been ongoing for more than 40 million years.

The intense underwater circulation was linked to gravitational interactions between Mars and Earth, with the Red Planet pulling ours closer to the sun every few million years.

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