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Friday, March 16, 2007 02:06 IST
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WASHINGTON: Huge deposits of pure frozen water have been found under the southern pole of Mars following a probe by the European spacecraft Mars Express, according to a study released on Thursday.
'While the precise composition of the deposits is unknown, it is believed they are predominantly water ice and that they represent the largest known reservoir of H2O on the planet,' said the study, in the March 15 edition of Science magazine. Researchers used signals sent by the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface Ionospheric Sounding (Marsis), which penetrated some 3.7 kilometers below the planet's surface, to make their calculations.
'We apply a technique commonly u"
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