Study Sheds New Light on Composition at Base of Martian Southern Polar Cap

Space Daily

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Tucson AZ (SPX) Jun 29, 2021

An earlier discovery of liquid water lakes beneath Mars' south pole may not be as wet as believed, a new paper says. Using the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) radar instrument aboard the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter, scientists had earlier detected areas of high radar reflectivity they said were several lakes found deep beneath Martian surface

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