Discovered: a huge liquid water lake beneath the southern pole of Mars
- Written by Jonti Horner, Professor (Astrophysics), University of Southern Queensland
Mars' south polar cap, as seen from Mars Global Surveyor. Buried beneath, we now know, is a lake of liquid water.NASA/JPL/MSSS
We now know that there is permanent liquid water on Mars, according to a paper published today in the journal Science.
This new finding comes from research using the Mars Express spacecraft that has been orbiting the red...
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