Erosion is revealing surprising amounts of water ice on Mars
by Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times
Jan 11, 2018
2 minutes
Thanks to erosion wearing away surface rock on Mars, scientists using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have spotted thick deposits of ice in the planet's mid-latitudes that extend hundreds of feet deep.
The discovery, described in the journal Science, could offer researchers a tantalizing new spot to sample our dusty, rusty neighbor.
"This ice is
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