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Huge Slabs Of Ice Detected Beneath The Surface Of Mars Could Sustain Human Colony
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|April 2018
ONE of the many problems standing in the way of humans establishing a colony on the Red Planet is obtaining a supply of fresh drinking water.
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Now, researchers using NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) may have found a solution: there are at least eight sites where thick deposits of ice buried beneath the planet’s surface are exposed in faces of eroding slopes. The team located the sites using the High- Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on the MRO. The ice was likely deposited as snow long ago and is thought t
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