Finally, perhaps stimulated by the recent Italian discovery of underground liquid water lakes, even American researchers re-evaluate the existence of large subsurface ice deposits on Mars.
The novelty, which is not so new, consists in a different way to use the Mars SHAllow RADar sounder (SHARAD) on board of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter probe.
A few months ago was published a research that attributed the detections of SHARAD to deposits of “sand” and not water ice, but evidently the Italian discovery has forced them to a powerful backward march!
The ice is there and it is abundant, independently from the latitude!
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