An ice deposit with as much frozen water as the volume of Lake Superior has been found on Mars in a region astronauts may some day call home. Using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, scientists performed more than 600 scans of Utopia Planitia, a mid-latitude region on the planet. The scans revealed an ice deposit that ranges in thickness from about 80 metres to 170 metres and is composed of about 50 to 85 per cent water. This vertically exaggerated image illustrates the region on Mars where scientists found as much frozen water as the volume of Lake Superior. The deposit accounts for just one per cent of all known water ice on the red planet, but will help planetary scientists better understand the history of Mars.

Source: CBC News November 23, 2016 18:53 UTC