Menu

Blog

May 24, 2019

An Astounding Amount of Water Has Been Discovered Beneath the Martian North Pole

Posted by in category: space

Using ground-penetrating radar, scientists detected a massive reservoir of frozen water sandwiched by layers of sand beneath the northern polar ice cap on Mars. This reservoir contains so much ice that, if melted and brought to the surface, it would submerge the entire planet.

“This was a surprise even for us,” Stefano Nerozzi, the lead author of the new paper and a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin, told Gizmodo in an email.

Read more

Comments are closed.