Mars’s south pole may have an underground lake surrounded by ponds

By Leah Crane

ESA/DLR/FU Berlin / Bill Dunford

A lake of liquid water surrounded by smaller ponds is probably to be buried below 1400 metres of ice come the south pole of Mars. Radar observations had already suggested that there would possibly be probably to be a lake, but original measurements salvage offered more evidence of its existence and could well per chance peaceable salvage stumbled on even more liquid water nearby.

The European Dwelling Agency’s Mars Explain spacecraft has been orbiting the planet since 2003. Elena Pettinelli at Roma Tre University in Italy and her colleagues …