Glaciares em Marte, sim! / Glaciers on Mars, yes!

Glaciares enormes, provavelmente com três vezes o tamanho da cidade de Los Angles, foram identificados em Marte.

Com meia milha de espessura, os cientistas crêem que sejam remanescentes de uma lâmina de gelo que outrora cobriu as latitudes medianas do planeta.

Glaciers on Mars

The glaciers, buried under rocky debris, are said to be more than three times the size of Los Angeles, up to half a mile thick.

Scientists believe they may be remnants of an ice sheet that once covered the planet's mid-latitudes.

The hidden glaciers, which extend for tens of miles from areas of high ground, were uncovered by ground-penetrating radar carried on the American space agency Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

The buried glaciers described by the scientists lie in the Hellas Basin region of the southern Martian hemisphere.