Mars ‘was once covered in ice sheets’ (and it means life was more likely to thrive there) – Yahoo News Australia

Large areas of ancient Mars were once covered in ice sheets, and the discovery means that life is more likely to have once flourished on the Red Planet. 
The melting glaciers which carved many of the features still visible on the surface today would have provided a shelter from solar radiation – and a possible harbour for life, researchers believe. 
Researchers from Western and University of British Columbia analysed similarities between Martian valleys and subglacial channels on Earth, such a…

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