anybody KNOW... am asking because this error would not be a SMALL error...
anybody KNOW... am asking because this error would not be a SMALL error...
Satellite analysis (ground penetrating "something") determined massive quantities of water below the ground. I forget the exact specifics, but I do recall reading that they determined there was as much water below the surface of Mars -- in the form of permafrost -- as there is in Lake Michigan, and that it might better be described as dirty ice, rather than dirt with ice.
Of course, this presumes that their assumption that it was accurate. I believe it was not. I believe (as detailed earlier in this thread and others) that the temperatures below the surface are warm enough so that it's liquid water (except at the poles, of course). This has several obvious implications.