A group of Italian scientists have
found a system of liquid ponds under the south pole of Mars.
The complex system has been detected around a bigger lake area
that was found in 2018.
This underground lake region probably contains salty brines,
according to a study published in Nature
Astronomy coordinated by Elena Pettinelli and Sebastian Emanuel
Lauro of the Roma Tre University and Roberto Orosei of the
National Institute of Astrophysics (INAF) - the same group
behind the first discovery.
The new lakes were found with the Marsis radar that Italian
Space Agency ASI provided for the European Space Agency's Mars
Express mission.
The new development could help to rewrite the history of the
planet's climate and shed light on the eventual existence of
life on it.
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