A ‘lake’ on Mars may be surrounded by more pools of water- (Science TKB)

Fresh intel from Mars is sure to stir debate about whether liquid water lurks beneath the planet’s polar ice.

As per new study data from science explorer it is a probe orbiting Mars appear to bolster a claim from 2018 that a lake sits roughly 1.5 kilometers beneath ice near the south pole (SN: 8/18/18). Observation which derived from analysis of the additional data, by some of the same researchers who reported the lake’s discovery.

If  the study exists with the data the central lake spans roughly 600 square km. It also studied that it keep from freezing the water would have to be extremely salty. And the possibly making it similar to sub-glacial lakes in Antarctica.

Galaxy study by Ali Bramson a planetary scientist at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind., agrees “something funky is going on at this location.” But, she says, “there are some limitations to the instrument and the data…. I don’t know if it’s totally a slam dunk yet.”