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An Underground Ice Deposit On Mars Is Bigger Than New Mexico (popularmechanics.com)
schwit1 quotes a report from Popular Mechanics: A single underground deposit of ice on Mars contains about as much water as there is in Michigan's Lake Superior, according to new research from NASA. The deposit rests in the mid-northern latitudes of the Red Planet, specifically in the Utopia Planitia region. Discovered by the Shallow Subsurface Radar (SHARD) instrument on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO), the deposit is "more extensive in area than the state of New Mexico," according to a NASA press release. It ranges in thickness from about 260 feet to about 560 feet, and has a composition that's 50 to 85 percent water ice, with what appears to be dust or larger rocky particles mixed in as well. None of the ice is exposed to the surface. At various points the dirt covering it is in between 3 and 33 feet thick.
I for one welcome our triple-tittied stripper overlords.
Well, they have to, since it would instantly pull the plug on their system if NASA wasn't lying. and Roscosmos, and ESA, and CNSA and both ISAs (one of them being the Iranian agency, the other one from Israel)...
Isn't it heartwarming that according to them, at least, these countries cannot get along AT ALL down here on earth but they all agreed to cooperate in their effort to keep space a mystery?
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Lake Michigan is in New Mexico?
Why don't they use standard units like football fields, double-decker buses or, the correct one in this case, olympic sized swimming pools.