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Ice Deposit Under Mars As Big As Lake Superior

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Even as expectations are up that evidence of life could be established on Mars, scientists have reported the presence of a giant deposit of buried ice that has frozen water to the equivalent of Lake Superior. That may sound a setback to trace life as water is the core component of life on the Earth.

This follows the data sent by the ground-probing Shallow Radar (SHARAD) aboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter of NASA that scanned the Utopia Planitia region of Mars to pass the crucial indications. The data followed diagonal striping of the area to confirm large subsurface deposit of water ice.



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