For all of those of us buying one of those one way tickets to mars with out crypro earnings when BTC hits 100K or 1 million dollars, you can now pack your swimming gear.
A lake, or permanent body of water has now been discovered on mars. It's about 20 km across but unfortunately only a bout 1 meter deep.
The only other catch is you will need to pack more than just your ice saw.
You will need some serious ice drilling equipment, since its under 1.5 km of ice beneath Mars's south pole.
Its been fascinating watching the rovers and other scientific instrumentation discover all kinds of signs of liquid water on mars's surface from the past and some transient but very temporary water on mars even today but this is very different in that it appears to be a permanent body of liquid water.
This has been published in Science and is being covered by most of the usual suspects so you can read more about it there.
Here is a short video courtesy of BBC via YouTube.
