Liquid Water Under the Martian Polar Ice? Maybe Not
Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science
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Isaac's 7th International Conference on Mars Polar Science and Exploration
Jeff: I've been looking at this problem in several different ways for many years. One of the new tools that we had at our disposal just recently was to take all the data that marsus had collected over the south pole and also the north pole, and compile it all into a basically a three dimensional image. This allowed us to map everywhere. Basically, we have such good coverage in the polar regions because it's a polar orbiting spacecraft. We can make very detailed, complete maps of this boundary at the base of the ice where it's in contact with the rocky mars surface. And that's, that's the target that we're all interested in for this study.
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