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New Images Reveal Pure Water Ice On Mars
Matt_dk writes "Images of recent impact craters taken by the HiRISE Camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have revealed sub-surface water ice halfway between the north pole and the equator on Mars. While the Phoenix lander imaged subsurface ice where the top layer of soil had been disturbed at the landing site near the north pole, these new images — taken in quick succession, detecting how the ice sublimated away — are the first to show evidence of water ice at much lower latitudes. Surprisingly, the white ice may be made from 99 percent pure water."
What's the last 1%? Something really nasty, I bet.
Ian Ameline
Space: where moist stuff is.
Gee, thanks for connecting the dots for us.
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I thought it was first observed many millennia ago? What IS that bright yellow thing in the sky? ;)
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