and had more water than the earth’s arctic ocean. that would mean that mars has been a warm and wet world, the foundation needed for life on a planet. it may be that there was life in mars in a long past. only 13% of this water is present, frozen in the pool caps.
the most famous and recent news about mars is that evidence has been found for water on mars. it was already known that water was once present and frozen water (see number 9 of this list), but it was not thought that liquid water would still be present. the water flows only on mars during the summer 