Time to bring democracy to Mars - underground lake of LIQUID water discovered

[Mook]

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/25/world/mars-subsurface-water-lake-evidence/index.html

A lake of liquid water has been detected by radar beneath the southern polar ice cap of Mars, according to a new study by Italian researchers from the Italian Space Agency, published Wednesday in the journal Science.

Those pulses reflected 29 sets of radar samples that created a map of drastic change in signal almost a mile below the surface. It stretched about 12.5 miles across and looked very similar to lakes that are found beneath Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets on Earth. The radar reflected the feature's brightness, signaling that it's water.

"We interpret this feature as a stable body of liquid water on Mars," the authors wrote in the study.

The study authors ruled out any other causes for this brightness.

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[Mook]

From another site -

Based on the article I read they don't know if it is an actual lake or an aquifer, and due to the ridiculously low temps (something like -60 Celsius) the water may be too salty for cellular life as we know it to exist. One guy interviewed said the salinity was likely so high that it would be a stretch for even extremophiles but not beyond the realm of possibility.

 

[Mr_Roboto]

From another site -

If such life exists it will be the life that inevitably kills us. Just saying.

 

[CMNTMXR57]

So essentially, you won't need a raft to float along on it, kinda like the Dead Sea?

 

[Yaj Yak]

extremophile seems like something [MENTION=7801]cmntmxr57[/MENTION] qualifies as

 

[Flyn]

Water is life. Water is a colony on Mars.

It's freaky how old SciFi is so close to current/future reality.

 

[DEEZUZ]

Life on Mars. Yes...

What does this prove in biblical standings

 

[CMNTMXR57]

extremophile seems like something [MENTION=7801]cmntmxr57[/MENTION] qualifies as

Hey,,, lets not get personal! Although my wife says worse things, so...

 

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