"The subsurface ice detected by the Odyssey instruments represents only the tip of an iceberg frozen under ground," Jim Bell of Cornell University, wrote in a commentary in Science. Spacecraft sent to Mars in the 1970s probably missed the ice by just a few inches, Boyton said. "The interesting thing is, it looks like the Viking 2 lander actually landed in a region that we think probably had the same ice beneath it," he said. "If they could have dug down a meter deep instead of 10 to 20 cm they could have found this ice. Isnt that interesting? They were probably right on top of it all the time and never had the slightest idea it was there."
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