00:00these have long been the images we've seen from the surface of mars massive unrelenting deserts
00:08as far as the eye or rather the rovers cameras can see however researchers with the european
00:13space agency have just made an enormous discovery as they have found a considerable amount of water
00:19ice on the red planet the find was made via a radar survey of the medusae fossae formation
00:24an area of the martian equator this is the most water ever discovered in the equatorial region
00:29so how much is there experts say they found a similar amount of ice as there is in the entire
00:34red sea they add that if brought to the surface there's enough water to cover the entirety of mars
00:40to a depth of around five to nine feet despite knowing something was going on under the surface
00:44in the region since 2007 this discovery was made possible due to new advances in radar technology
00:50while this find is significant the water ice buried on mars won't be of any help to future human missions
00:55there as it's buried hundreds of meters below the surface however it does raise hopes about finding
01:00more water ice or otherwise still the search remains on for liquid water on the red planet
01:05as this is believed to be an integral aspect when looking for living alien life
01:10you
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