The Martian South Polar Ice Cap (IMAGE)

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The Martian South Polar Ice Cap

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This is the Martian South Pole. A new study in Geophysical Research Letters argues there needs to be an underground source of heat for liquid water to exist underneath the polar ice cap.

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