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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:Fossil water by harry666t · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Disagree.

    Some of the asteroids in the belt have natural satellites of other asteroids. The resulting tidal forces would've destroyed them in a few millions of years, so the asteroid belt couldn't have been there much longer than that.

    Related: "The Bell", a nazi project from the WW2, and Iapetus, Saturn's artificial satellite that could've been used as a weapon (pay attention to its shape -- it's *not* spherical!).