'Missing' water on Mars may be hidden in vast glaciers
Friday, November 21, 2008 - 14:14
in Astronomy & Space
The answer to a Martian riddle -- where did all the water go? -- may lie in debris-covered glaciers found by ground-penetrating radar on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. In a discovery that partly answers the question of where all the water went on Mars, scientists have found vast, debris-covered glaciers much nearer the equatorial region than anyone had expected, according to a report today in the journal Science.
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