Hazzard Posted November 30, 2005 #1 Share Posted November 30, 2005 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thanato Posted November 30, 2005 #2 Share Posted November 30, 2005 There ice on the surface too, the North Pole is supose to be made mostly of Water Ice. ~Thanato Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Silver Thong Posted November 30, 2005 #3 Share Posted November 30, 2005 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROGER Posted November 30, 2005 #4 Share Posted November 30, 2005 Finding water and ice will help to secure a Martian Base or colony a hundred years from now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hazzard Posted December 1, 2005 Author #5 Share Posted December 1, 2005 (edited) 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. Edited December 1, 2005 by hazzard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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