New research suggests Mars could have enough water under its surface to form a global ocean.

On Monday, scientists released their findings, which are based on seismic measurements captured from NASA’s Mars InSight rover, which detected over 1,300 marsquakes before shutting down two years ago.

The water is believed to be hiding in the cracks of rocks underground and could be seven to 12 miles beneath the Martian crust.

The water may have seeped from the surface billions of years ago, when the red planet had rivers, lakes and possibly oceans, lead scientist Vashan Wright of the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography told The Associated Press.

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But even though water could be underneath Mars’ crust, it does not necessarily mean it holds life, according to Wright.

"Instead, our findings mean that there are environments that could possibly be habitable," he told the AP in an email.

Wright’s team used computer models and readings from Insight, including the velocity of the quakes, to determine underground water was the most likely explanation.

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The team’s results appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on Monday.

Wright said if InSight’s location near the planet’s equator is representative of the rest of Mars, there would be enough water underground to fill a global ocean at a depth of about a mile.

Scientists would need to find a way to drill down deep enough into the planet’s crust to confirm the potential of life and the presence of water.

While large volumes of water are believed to have existed on the surface of Mars over 3 billion years ago, scientists hypothesize the water either drained down into the ground or was lost to space.

The water is also believed to have vanished as the planet’s atmosphere thinned, turning the planet into a dry and dusty world.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Mexican authorities are considering bringing charges against those who handed over the country’s most-wanted drug lord and co-founder of the Sinaloa Cartel, Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada Garcia, to the U.S. last month.

On July 25, U.S. officials announced that Zambada Garcia was taken into custody in El Paso, Texas, alongside Joaquín Guzmán López, the son of the cartel's other co-founder, Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman.

Guzmán López flew to the U.S. to turn himself in to U.S. authorities, but abducted Zambada Garcia before leaving Mexico, forcing him onto the plane, officials said.

Instead of thanking the U.S. for apprehending Zambada Garcia — who is responsible for leading a cartel that has terrorized and spread violence across Mexico for decades — Mexican prosecutors are considering treason charges against Guzmán López and anyone else involved in the abduction.

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The Mexican attorney general’s office announced on Sunday it had opened a criminal investigation "for the possible crimes of illegal flight, illicit use of airports, immigration and customs violations, kidnapping, treason, and any other crimes that may apply."

The U.S. was offering a $15 million reward for the capture of Zambada Garcia, and Mexico’s response to the apprehension is based on the country’s penal code that lays out prison sentences of up to 40 years in prison for treason, the Associated Press reported.

The penal code article not only includes traditional definitions of treason like attacking Mexico on behalf of a foreign power or serving a foreign army, but also states treason is committed by anyone who illegally abducts "a person in Mexico in order to hand them over to authorities of another country."

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The clause was added in response to the abduction of Mexican doctor Humberto Machaín, who was kidnapped in Mexico in 1990 and handed over to the U.S. Machaín was wanted for allegedly participating in the 1985 torture and murder of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Kiki Camarena.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador reportedly said Monday he questioned the U.S. policy of detaining drug cartel leaders, asking, "Why don’t they change that policy?"

Zambada Garcia’s lawyer, over the weekend, released a letter from his client, claiming he was ambushed and kidnapped when he believed he was going to meet with the governor of Sinaloa. Instead, Zambada Garcia claimed, he was taken against his will to the U.S.

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Zambada Garcia also reportedly claimed in the letter that Guzmán López asked him to attend a meeting on July 25 with local politicians, but instead, he was led to a room and knocked down before a hood was placed over his head. Zambada Garcia said he was handcuffed, driven to a landing strip in a pickup truck, and forced into a private plane that delivered him to U.S. soil.

In the letter, he raised questions about the links between Sinaloa politicians and drug traffickers, though Gov. Richa Moya denies any links to criminals and claimed he was not in Sinaloa on the day of the abduction. Instead, Moya reportedly said he was in Los Angeles.

The attorney general’s office has taken the case over from Sinaloa state prosecutors.

Zambada Garcia has been charged in numerous U.S. cases, including one filed in February in the Eastern District of New York accusing him of conspiring to manufacture and distribute fentanyl. Prosecutors said he led "one of the most violent and powerful drug trafficking organizations in the world."

Now that Zambada Garcia is behind bars, experts say many powerful people in Mexico will be concerned that in a bid for a more comfortable deal, he could cooperate with U.S. authorities and accuse them of collaborating with the cartels.

Fox News’ Adam Shaw and The Associated Press contributed to this report.