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ICE ON MARS.


Hazzard

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15:00 30 November 2005

NewScientist.com news service

Maggie McKee.

Radar reveals ice deep below Martian surface.

The first ever underground investigation of another planet has been performed by a radar antenna aboard Europe's Mars Express spacecraft. The instrument probed two kilometres below the Martian surface and found tantalising hints of liquid water pooling in a buried impact crater.

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=...line-news_rss20

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this is very cool a liquid lake and a big one, chances are that they may very well find life (microscopic) or more ahhhhhhhhhhh water peopel hehe

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:alien: Finding water and ice will help to secure a Martian Base or colony a hundred years from now.
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:alien: Finding water and ice will help to secure a Martian Base or colony a hundred years from now.

Opportunities for a trip to Mars come up in the years 2011, 2014 and 2018,I think, when the planets are aligned for the shortest travel time.

Between now and then, scientists have plenty of scientific questions to answer: For example, how plentiful is water ice in the planets soil and at the poles?

Water would be a key resource for sustaining a human crew and manufacturing rocket fuel,oxygen and drinking water.

If you could take a 747 to Mars at a typical cruising speed of 900kph, for example, the trip would take just over seven years. This is assuming you could travel the shortest possible distance in a straight line.

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