Salt lakes found under Martian polar ice caps | stuartlayt
An international group of researchers, including scientists from Queensland, has confirmed there are multiple salty lakes hidden under the surface of the south pole of Mars, giving hope to the idea that life could still be found on the red planet.
One of the researchers, Graziella Caprarelli from the University of Southern Queensland’s Centre for Astrophysics, said they not only confirmed the initial finding but found three other hidden salt lakes."So there are in total four lakes, if we can call them that, that we can see under the south polar ice," she said.
"It had been hypothesised that the geothermal activity is higher in that area than in other parts of Mars but to date there is really no evidence for that." "The interpretation that best reconciles all the available evidence is that the high intensity reflections are coming from extended pools of liquid water."
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