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ESA's Mars Express orbiter discovers ice water deposits at the Red Planet's equator
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20/01/2024
The potential discovery suggests that Mars once looked very different from how it appears today and could once have sustained life.
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It's a testament to how much water there would
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have been on Mars in the past.
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To amass piles of water ice several kilometers thick,
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that's a vast amount of water.
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So we've seen the evidence of lots
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of water on the Martian surface in other places.
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These Medusa fossil formation look a lot like the polar caps
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when we look at them.
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So this is really surprising.
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We don't expect to see a polar ice cap at the equator.
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You know, it's as ludicrous on Mars as it would be on Earth.
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But that's what the data are telling us,
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saying it does look like that.
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