Posted by tourdemars to Life on Mars at December 10, 2002 12:00 PM

Staggering quantities of water are hidden below the surface of Mars, the latest results from the Odyssey spacecraft suggest. The discovery doesn't alter the Mars' status as a barren wilderness because the water has been locked-up in subterranean ice for millennia, mainly around the planet's poles. But the sheer volume of ice does pertain to the likelihood that life once existed on the planet.