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The European Space Agency published this photo of a ice-filled crater (named after Korolev, the russian engineer responsible for Sputnik)

According to Sky News (where I got the picture from) the crater is 82 kms wide and about 2km deep. It's a lot of ice.

And since that is basically water that escaped (due to becoming solid) evaporation during Mars' athmosphere decay, maybe there's a lot more, in solid or liquid condition, underground.

And if Mars indeed holds vast amounts of water, there can either: a) be life there; b) be the conditions to facilitate the settlement of humans if/when we ever decide to venture that far

Thank you Richard, Merry Christmas to you and your family, hope we meet one day, be it because I return to some other TOTH or because you come down here to Caramulo!

Thank you Mario I am sure we will before too long and I look forward to that day.

Incredible to think that there could be some life in that, somewhere ! I do hope they find the existence of life within my lifetime.. they better hurry up :-)

Another interesting image of it on the ESA site:

http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2018/12/Topography_of_Korolev_crater

I wonder why they didn't find this earlier, it's not like its a small crater.

Thanks Jon for the Posting. Pretty interesting that they named it after the Sputnik engineer. I remember seeing Sputnik flying over and the entire neighborhood outside watching in amazement.