They detect great amounts of pure water in the Mars North Pole

The North polar Mars layer contains water ice with a high degree of purity, in agreement with an international study. Using data of the instrument radar SHARAD on board the Orbitador de Reconocimiento de Marte (MRO), French investigators say that the data aim at a 95% of purity in the polar ice layer. The North polar layer is a cupola of materials frozen in layers, similar to the great ice layers of Greenland and Antarctica, that consist of deposits in layers, mainly of ice and a small amount of dust. Combined, the North and South polar layers think that they contain the equivalent to two or three million cubical kilometers of ice, doing it 100 times greater than the total volume of the Great Lakes of North America, that contain 22 684 kilometers cubical.

Mars existing ice layer

The study was realised by investigators of the National Institute of Sciences of the Universe in France (Insu), using the radar of Italian construction SHARAD on board the MRO of American construction. SHARAD looks for water liquid or congealed in the first hundreds of meters (until a kilometer) of the Mars crust using a sounding of the subsurface. It can detect liquid water and a profile of the ice.

The South polar Mars layer thought during a time that she was compound of carbon dioxide, but the Mars Express of THAT confirmed that she is compound of a mixture of water and carbon dioxide.

The study of the North polar Mars layer appears in the magazine Geophysical Research Letters, published by the American Geophysical Unisón.

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