• daisy
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    11 months ago

    The big success story of the Mars rover and orbiter missions has been the confirmation of Mars as a former water world, with current massive deposits of water ice almost everywhere that would be accessible with a plain old backhoe if we could land one. For example there's a subsurface glacier in Utopia Planitia starting at just a few metres under the dirt that has more water, in the form of ice, than Lake Superior here on Earth.