Check Out This Amazing Ice Deposit Discovery on Mars

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These have long been the images we’ve seen from the surface of Mars, massive unrelenting deserts as far as the eye… or rather rover’s instrumentation can see. However, researchers with the European Space Agency have just made an enormous discovery as they have found a considerable amount of water ice on the red planet.

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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

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