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Salty ponds may be under Mars’ icy surface, raising prospect of Martian life – The Guardian
Italian scientists provide further evidence of underground lake and smaller bodies of water in study
A network of salty ponds may be gurgling beneath Mars south pole alongside a large underground lake, raising the prospect of tiny, swimming Martian life.
Italian scientists reported their findings Monday, two years after identifying what they believed to be a large buried lake. They widened their coverage area by a couple hundred miles, using even more data from a radar sounder on the European Space Agencys Mars Express orbiter.
In the latest study appearing in the journal Nature Astronomy, th…
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