MOSCOW, 13 APR – RIA Novosti. Water on the red planet enough for its future colonizers for a long time, said in an interview with RIA Novosti head of the laboratory of neutron and gamma-ray spectroscopy Department of nuclear planetology space research Institute of RAS Maxim Litvak.
According to him, in the polar regions of the red planet there is dirty ice, amounting to tens of percent water by mass fraction. “It is close to the surface and deeply rooted, judging by the radar data,” – said the scientist.
in addition, he noted, in some Equatorial regions detected increased to 15% by mass percentage of the water content.
“Really, scientists’ opinions here were divided. It may be chemically bound water in minerals or remnants of relict ice,” said Litvak.
