Ooooh, neat! I’m not actually that big of a space nerd (in terms of excitement about what our current space program is doing), but anything that ups the chances of our actually discovering extraterrestrial life is enormously exciting in my book 🙂
It’s official. There is liquid water on Mars. And not just a little, either. A research team led by Roberto Orosei, a professor at the University of Bologna, has detected a lake of liquid water 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) wide about 1.5 kilometers (.9 miles) below the surface of Mars’ southern ice cap in a region known as Planum Australe. They suspect that dissolved salts from nearby minerals prevent the water from freezing, despite the low temperatures.
Very exciting!