A satellite orbiting Mars has found evidence of a huge underground lake of liquid water, in a discovery greeted by scientists as “stunning”, “incredible”, and “of extraordinary significance”.
“This is currently our best, albeit slim chance of discovering life elsewhere in our solar system,” says the executive director of space engineering at the University of Sydney, Warwick Holmes.
The water is likely sludgy, filled with salt, and under incredibly high pressures, all of which keeps it from freezing in the minus
68 degree temperatures.
The "lake" is 20 kilometres wide and is buried about 1.5 kilometres beneath Mars’ southern ice cap.