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Exciting news! (and something to distract you from the political madness these days)

A lake on Mars? New data suggests liquid water lies beneath planet's southern pole

About 1.5 kilometres beneath the planet's southern pole, in a region called Planum Australe, there is a "well-defined" lake or a possible aquifer covering 20 square kilometres, which the team suggests is salty, liquid water.

"Progressively, we were narrowing the possibilities," said paper co-author Elena Pettinelli, an associate professor in the department of math and physics at the Universita degli Studi Roma Tre in Rome.

"In some ways, we didn't want to think it was water … but really there's no other explanation."

Still, the astronomical community is cautiously optimistic.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/s...mars-1.4757940