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Mars may have a frozen sea

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Images of Elysium plains seem to show ice floes.

The Mars Express spacecraft, currently orbiting the red planet, has taken snapshots of what appears to be a dust-covered frozen sea.

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Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

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