Deep below a mile of ice at the Martian south pole lies a lake of liquid water, according to a team of Italian scientists led by Roberto Orosei.
Via NPR:
When Orosei and his colleagues analyzed the data, they saw what looked like a lake of water about 12 miles in diameter and a mile below a surface layer made up of water ice and dust. There are hundreds of this kind of subglacial lake on Earth, mostly in Antarctica.
“After years, literally a couple of years of…discussion, debate, and let’s say general head scratching, we really felt confident that any other explanation would fail,” Orosei says.
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