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Lake under south polar ice cap requires local heat source

Posted on March 14, 2019 by rburnham

Thermal modeling suggests that active magmatism in the past few hundred thousand years could account for the presence of a large lake previously hypothesized beneath the Red Planet’s southern ice cap. Liquid water appears to be a fundamental requirement for … Continue reading →

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