The new finding is based on data from the gamma ray spectrometer on Mars Odyssey, which can measure concentrations of various chemical elements as far as about 30
centimetres below the Martian surface.
The glacier ice found by the team, which came from a layer that began just 50
centimetres below the surface, was dated by analysing the relative abundances of isotopes of argon in a thin layer of overlying volcanic ash.
Data received before the cut - off suggests the drill had reached 25
centimetres below the spacecraft, but with Philae standing in a precarious position, with one leg in the air, the drill may not make it to the surface to take a sample.
With an excess of thick, wiry hair and a beard line that seems to stop mere
centimetres below his eyesockets, Marouane Fellaini has never been the easiest chap to look at for long periods of time.
Not exact matches
IMAGINE drilling into a cylinder just 18
centimetres wide and 5500 metres
below the sea floor.
While the global average rise is predicted to be between 30 and 106
centimetres, he says tropical seas will rise 10 or 20 per cent more, while polar seas will see a
below - average rise.
No more than 5
centimetres long, it tends to make its home in cool and dry places under branches or other bits of wood, in temperatures that often dip
below freezing for hours or days.
In March, in their largest trial so far, they used a plastic tube 14
centimetres wide which reached from the surface of Lake Nyos to its bed, 208 metres
below.
And I have to admit I needed to find a height converter to figure out what 5 ″ 4 is in
centimetres... But I'm about the same height (if I got that right...), and knee - high, or just
below the knee seems to work best.
Most inline - three engines fall
below 1.2 litres, with a 1,198 cubic
centimetres (73.1 cu in) Volkswagen Group unit seen as the largest inline - three petrol engine.
The system does the same for volcanic eruptions, for it reveals that volcanoes heave and sag over many
centimetres as the molten rock deep
below swells and shrinks.