Unexpected discovery, the researchers came studying images from the Mars Odyssey probe with the help of new technologies.
Re-analysis of images from the Mars Odyssey probe conducted by the staff of Durham University (UK) showed that at the equator of Mars may be hiding large stocks of ice.
“We managed to improve the quality of data as if we halve the height of the orbit of the probe. We already knew that the deposits of ice present in polar regions of Mars, and now we found deposits of frozen water and at the equator of the planet,” — said one of the study’s authors Jack Wilson.
Scientists believe that the presence of large glaciers near the equator of Mars, comparable to the southern ice caps of the planet, says that in the past the axis of rotation was tilted too far. According to Wilson, Mars had to spin almost on its side, with axis tilted at 45 degrees, so that these glaciers could form in the relatively warm equator of the red planet.
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