Listening to:  Brendon

Found on NewScientist.
A big ass lump of ice is thought to lie just below the surface of Mars… and they
think they have the evidence.

A frozen sea, surviving as blocks of pack ice, may lie just beneath the surface
of Mars, suggest observations from Europe’s Mars Express spacecraft. The sea is just
5° north of the Martian equator and would be the first discovery of a large body
of water beyond the planet’s polar ice caps.
…
The team of researchers, led by John Murray at the Open University, UK, estimates
the submerged ice sea is about 800 by 900 kilometres in size and averages 45 metres
deep.

UPDATE: BBC World has an article
with pictures.

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