In Brief: Spacecraft finds evidence of large amounts of ice on Mars
WATER FOUND: Instruments on NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft have found enough frozen subsurface water on Mars to fill Lake Michigan twice, NASA said. The spacecraft's gamma ray spectrometer indicated water ice in the top three feet of soil in a region surrounding the planet's south pole.
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