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Published Online May 30, 2002
Science DOI: 10.1126/science.1074025

Perspectives

Submitted on May 15, 2002
Accepted on May 23, 2002

Tip of the Martian Iceberg?

Jim Bell 1*

1 Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.

* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: jimbo{at}astro.cornell.edu.

Surface features on Mars indicate that large amounts of water may have existed on the martian surface in the past. Where has the water gone? In his Perspective, Bell highlights the reports by Boynton et al., Feldman et al., and Mitrofanov et al., who have analyzed initial data from the Mars Odyssey mission. The results indicate that there may be large subsurface water ice deposits, especially toward the poles of our neighboring planet.




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