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20. Swimmers need water, Mars has water!

Wed Nov 30, 2016, 04:14 AM

Nov 2016

Mars Ice Deposit Holds as Much Water as Lake Superior

Frozen beneath a region of cracked and pitted plains on Mars lies about as much water as what's in Lake Superior, largest of the Great Lakes, researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have determined.

Scientists examined part of Mars' Utopia Planitia region, in the mid-northern latitudes, with the orbiter's ground-penetrating Shallow Radar (SHARAD) instrument. Analyses of data from more than 600 overhead passes with the onboard radar instrument reveal a deposit more extensive in area than the state of New Mexico. The deposit ranges in thickness from about 260 feet (80 meters) to about 560 feet (170 meters), with a composition that's 50 to 85 percent water ice, mixed with dust or larger rocky particles.

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Lookin' Good, Mars! ExoMars' First High-Res Photos Are Incredible [View all] Baclava Nov 2016 OP

Awesome! Thanks for sharing this! livetohike Nov 2016 #1

Thanks for posting. Tremendous pictures, almost unbelievably sharp. justhanginon Nov 2016 #2

We need to send a drone down and fly into those lava tubes! Baclava Nov 2016 #3

A drone sounds nice, christx30 Nov 2016 #13

OK - maybe a crawler can just jump in and crawl around some with a camera feed to an orbiter Baclava Nov 2016 #15

I like that idea. I'd love to see what's down there. christx30 Nov 2016 #16

heh, yeah, I'm watching Mars...glad they went for the tubes and inflatable shelter! Baclava Nov 2016 #17

possibly what our planet will look like within the next 4 years. olddad56 Nov 2016 #4

Thank you. They are amazing. Judi Lynn Nov 2016 #5

I'm still looking through the New Horizon's Pluto pics Baclava Nov 2016 #10

I like the robot pics from the surface too, they don't get enough love Baclava Nov 2016 #12

Just wow mountain grammy Nov 2016 #6

Looks like a closeup Liberalagogo Nov 2016 #7

Uh, measurements with **SOUND WAVES** ?? eppur_se_muova Nov 2016 #8

Well, they said it was "stereo" - what else could it be but sound? petronius Nov 2016 #9

hell if I know what they're saying there...stereo images is what it does Baclava Nov 2016 #11

They're also aerobraking, which means they are in the atmosphere, somewhat. christx30 Nov 2016 #14

Probably a dumbass reporter that knows only one definition of Stereo Thor_MN Nov 2016 #18

Damn, those Martian Sperm are HUGE! kebob Nov 2016 #19

Swimmers need water, Mars has water! Baclava Nov 2016 #20