Scientists Discover a Body of Water on Mars
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Scientists Discover
a Body of Water on Mars A lake of liquid, salty water has been detected by Italian researchers beneath the southern polar ice cap of Mars. Italian Space Agency researchers believe the lake exists one mile below the surface and stretches for about 12.5 miles. The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding instrument (MARSIS) gathered the evidence of water from 2012-2015. 29 sets of radar samples indicated signal changes beneath the Mars surface that resemble lakes found on earth beneath Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Italian Space Agency, via CNN The Martian water is most likely below the freezing point, but salts already found on Mars could help the water form a brine. The means it's possible
the lake is liquid. Richard Zurek, Mars Program Office NASA's JPL, via 'Wired'
a Body of Water on Mars A lake of liquid, salty water has been detected by Italian researchers beneath the southern polar ice cap of Mars. Italian Space Agency researchers believe the lake exists one mile below the surface and stretches for about 12.5 miles. The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding instrument (MARSIS) gathered the evidence of water from 2012-2015. 29 sets of radar samples indicated signal changes beneath the Mars surface that resemble lakes found on earth beneath Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets. Italian Space Agency, via CNN The Martian water is most likely below the freezing point, but salts already found on Mars could help the water form a brine. The means it's possible
the lake is liquid. Richard Zurek, Mars Program Office NASA's JPL, via 'Wired'