A recent post says that huge deposits of pure frozen water have been found under the southern pole of Mars following a probe by the European spacecraft Mars Express according to study released here yesterday.
"While the precise composition of the deposits is unknown ,it is believed they are predominantly water ice and they represent the largest known reservoir of h2o on the planet" said the study ,in the march 15 edition of science magazine .
Researchers used signals sent by mars adavanced radar for sybsurface ionosphere sounding(marsis) which penetrated some 3.7 km deep.
if the ice were to melt completely it would cover the entire planet to a depth of 11 meters . earlier this month scientists said in a study published in an nature that they found evidence that mars was once latticed by an underground water system proving the planet has had a long complex relation ship with one of the potential ingredients for life.
Today mars ,which like earth was formed some 4.6 billion years agao,is bone dry its thin atmosphere almost entirely bereft of water .
but mos experts now agree that the planet was once covered with seas and a balmy earth like atmosphere,fueling spectaculation that it could have harbored some form of life ,even bacterial.
well no we can hope we are not alone on this earth and have few neibhours to laugh or fight with
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