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'We thought it was impossible:' Water frost on Mars discovered near Red Planet's equator (www.space.com)

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[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 36 points 5 months ago

the frost patches cover a vast area of each of the volcanoes, and its water content could fill roughly 60 Olympic swimming pools, measuring close to 29.4 million gallons (111 million liters) of water.

Wow! That's far more than I expected. I think it's probably more than anyone expected!

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