Interior Of Mars Is Colder Than Previously Thought, So Any Possible Liquid Water Would Be Deep Underground

NewsDaily for May 16, 2008 reported that

"We found that the rocky surface of Mars is not bending under the load of the north polar ice cap," said Roger Phillips of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colo. Phillips is the lead author of a new report appearing in the online version of Science. "This implies that the planet's interior is more rigid, and thus colder, than we thought before."