MARS: Reconnaissance Orbiter Discovers Ice On The Red Planet!
by admin on Nov.24, 2009, under Latest News
Following the discovery of water molecules across the moon’s surface, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) produced the following video that also reveals and illustrates the large quantities of frozen water in five Martian craters where recent meteorite crashes churned up underground ice that quickly vanished into the planet’s thin atmosphere. This discovery was made by the high resolution Context camera abroad the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and officially reported by Mars researchers and scientists based at the University of Arizona’s Luna and Planetary Science Laboratory.
The Context camera snapped pictures of fascinating dark spots on the planet a year ago of small craters newly formed by the impact of meteorites. Images of one of the new craters revealed that its edge was filled with bright blue material bright in the sunlight looking exactly like ice. The orbiting spacecraft’s spectral analyzer later learned that the ice was 99 percent pure water, blasted up around the crater from deeper underground. The icy craters are about halfway between the planet’s North Pole and its equator.
Last year, the Phoenix spacecraft, after a cliff-hanger landing near the north polar cap of Mars, scraped away an inch or two of sand and detected what appeared to be the surface of a lake of somewhat dirty ice.
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