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Buried lakes of liquid water discovered on Mars

Gwynston · 2020-09-29 14:49:03

Update to date data research after initial lake discovery years ago: BBC News: Three underground lakes have been detected near the south pole of Mars.

29-09-2020 3:49pm

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Gwynston

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Update to date data research after initial lake discovery years ago:
BBC News: Three underground lakes have been detected near the south pole of Mars.

...these lakes have probably existed for much of Mars' history. For this reason, they could still retain traces of any life forms that could have evolved when Mars had a dense atmosphere, a milder climate and the presence of liquid water on the surface, similar to the early Earth

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Some of the commentary I've read suggests it's premature to call the signals "lakes", suggesting it's more likely a sort of wet, salty sludge. It's also been suggested that for this to be liquid, it'd have to be so salty as to be basically sterile (by analogy with hyper-saline locations on Earth. There's a Chinese mission en route that may provide additional evidence one way or another.

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