How were new craters on Mars discovered?
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What Did This Crater Tell Us About Mars?
This was the biggest fresh crater we'd ever seen form anywhere in the solar system. So there is water ice on Mars, especially at the poles. It tends to be below the surface just because all the ice on the surface has sublimated away. This hole was so deep that it actually excavated ice beneath the sand.
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