French scientists have chosen Egypt’s western desert to test equipment designed to search for water on Mars, due the similarity between the red planet’s surface and the Arab state’s parched sands, the daily Al Ahram said.
Testing on four radar units capable of exploring deep underground, which scientists plan to launch on a Mars mission in 2007, will begin near Siwa Oasis in February 2002.
“It is believed that the Egyptian desert is rich in underground water at hundreds of meters of depth,” said a French scientist at Bordeaux Observatory, Alan Castit – Albawaba.com
