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Massive Martian Glaciers Found

Posted by timothy on from the could-be-a-trick dept.

Kozar_The_Malignant writes "Scientific American is reporting that 'data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter point to vast glaciers buried beneath thin layers of crustal debris.' Data from the surface-penetrating radar on MRO revealed that two well-known mid-latitude features are composed of solid water ice. One is about three times the size of the City of Los Angeles. This certainly makes the idea of establishing a station on Mars far more plausible."

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  1. Re:Time to move... by symbolset · · Score: 5, Funny

    Valentine Michael Smith?

    Weren't you born there?

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  2. Re:Three times the size of City of Los Angeles? by MightyYar · · Score: 5, Funny

    LoCs are data size. CoLAs are a measure of land area.

    Everyone knows that - it's taught to kids before they are even 30 shark nipples high.

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  3. Re:Time to move... by egr · · Score: 5, Funny

    if you make spaceship look like a basement some wouldn't even notice that they were going to Mars

  4. Re:Time to move... by MichaelSmith · · Score: 5, Funny

    Having been here since 1965 I now want to go back.

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