A new study, led by the University of Cambridge, has uncovered further evidence suggesting there could be liquid water on Mars. It is said to provide the first independent line of evidence using data other than radar to show liquid water beneath Mars’ south polar ice cap.
However, this “does not necessarily mean that life exists on Mars”, the experts stressed. The international research team included scientists from the University of Sheffield and the Open University, as well as counterparts from the University of Nantes and University College Dublin.
Like Earth, Mars has thick water ice caps at both poles, with their combined volume roughly equivalent to the Greenland Ice Sheet. While Earth’s ice sheets are underlain by water-filled channels and subglacial lakes, it was previously thought that those on Mars were frozen solid all the way to their beds due to the cold Martian climate.
