Italian Scientist Suggests Life on Mars Exists Even Now

• Italian Scientist Suggests Life on Mars Exists Even Now
  by https://sputniknews.com/
  A team of Italian researchers has discovered a salt lake on Mars using the Marsis radar on board the European Space Agency’s Mars Express orbiter. Sputnik spoke with Roberto Orosei, a researcher at the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica and the Marsis’ scientific director, to find out how important the discovery is for the future of humankind.
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  Sputnik: The news about your discovery has spread throughout the world. It’s the first confirmation of the presence of water on Mars. What exactly does the discovery mean?
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  Roberto Orosei: This is a subglacial lake, similar to those in the Arctic Region or Greenland, such as Lake Vostok, which is the Arctic’s largest subglacial lake. The Martian lake is located under a kilometer and a half of ice and it was discovered thanks to a radar similar to those used to study the glaciers on Earth. This type of radar is able to penetrate below the surface and obtain echoes from the material under the ice.
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  In that case, the water was recognizable because it better reflects the radio waves. When the radar is over a subglacial lake, the echoes coming from the bottom suddenly become very strong and even stronger than the echoes coming from the surface of the ice.
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