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Underground lake detected on Mars
News:
- The first stable body of liquid water found on Mars.
Important facts:
2. It is about 20 km wide, shaped like a rounded triangle and located about 1.5 km beneath the ice surface.
3. The research was undertaken by the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica in Italy.
4. Scientist used a radar instrument for spotting water.
5. The detection was made using the data collected between May 2012 and December 2015 by an instrument aboard the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft that transmits radar pulses, which penetrate the Martian surface and ice caps.
6. The location’s radar profile resembled that of subglacial lakes found beneath Earth’s Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets.
