ESA has released new radar maps showing the lake buried under the south pole of Mars. The stripe-like images were produced by the agency's orbiting Mars Express spacecraft as its Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding instrument (MARSIS) probed down to depths of 1.5 km (1 mi) to show the presence of liquid water at the base of the Martian ice cap over a 20-km-wide (12.4-mi) area of the Planum Australe.
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