Salty lake, ponds under South Pole on Mars

By Marcia Dunn
Updated September 29 2020 - 9:26am, first published 9:23am
Italian scientists identified what they believed to be a large buried lake on Mars two years ago.
Italian scientists identified what they believed to be a large buried lake on Mars two years ago.

A network of salty ponds may be gurgling beneath Mars' South Pole alongside a large underground lake, raising the prospect of tiny, swimming Martian life.

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