Join Professor Fred Watson, Astronomer At Large, and Andrew Dunkley from the Space Nuts podcast team as they discuss the recent discovery of glacier-like structures near Mars' equator which has intrigued both scientists and space enthusiasts. Unlike previously identified ice deposits found near the poles, these structures suggest that large bodies of water may have existed in equatorial regions, which could potentially be accessible to future human exploration. The structures are believed to be deposits of volcanic salts formed when freshly erupted pyroclastic materials interact with water ice to create sulfate salts that accumulate into a hardened salt layer. This information has been gathered through the use of orbiting spacecraft such as Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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