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Space
Space
Science
Leonard David

Drilling for water ice on Mars: How close are we to making it happen?

A yellow tinted four-wheeled rover with to blue cylindrical tanks stands on a rusted red surface.

Things are looking up for digging deep on Mars. Progress is palpable on how best to extract subsurface ice to generate drinkable water, rocket fuel and other useful resources on the Red Planet.

But boring down from the topside of Mars to reach available icy reservoirs is no slam dunk.

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