Mars has thousands of glaciers buried beneath its dusty surface, with enough frozen water to blanket the planet with a 1.1m-thick layer of ice.
The glaciers are found in two bands in the mid-southern and mid-northern latitudes. Radar data, collected by Mars-orbiting satellites, combined with computer models of ice flows show the planet has about 150 billion cubic metres of water locked in the ice, according to a study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letter.
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