It’s been a generally-agreed fact for years that Mars is hiding significant ice deposits. But the size and location of the frozen water has been ... found a new window into the ice for study ...

Like much of Mars, the butterscotch plain is ... Drop the pressure on a piece of ice far enough, and it will turn straight into water vapor, a process called sublimation. This is exactly what ...

The gases trapped deep in a volcano would be released and then drift into ... over Mars, including the polar ice caps, where ...

While these simulations can only go back so far before they run into problems ... makes it possible for water on the surface to stay in liquid form instead of ice. If Mars ever had some form ...

The 3.7-billion-year-old formations in the planet's Gale Crater suggest the presence of long-gone bodies of liquid water, with no ice covering the surface ...

The south polar region of Mars When it was shared: Jan. 29, 2025 Why it's so special: These odd, fan-like features on the ...

But new research garnered from NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and Mars Odyssey missions reveal an array of water ice deposits that ... of elements that will go into the eventual decision ...

When Mars is tilted far enough, carbon dioxide ice turns into gas on a large scale — enough to give the whole planet a thicker atmosphere. This thicker atmosphere might have been enough to ...

The probe’s OMEGA instrument, which combined data from a camera and an infrared spectrometer, revealed the presence of water ice and carbon dioxide ice for the first time on Mars. Multimedia ...

Scientists have found vast oceans of ice lying just below the ... was once at least microscopic life on Mars and that some of it may still survive-Having water just below the surface also means ...

Researchers have discovered two sets of ancient wave ripples on Mars, signatures of long-dried bodies of water preserved ... were free of ice, offering an important insight into the planet's ...

The space agency released a new video in which it details how snow falls on the Red Planet and how ice and frost ... Snow made of frozen water. As the Perseverance rover explores Mars in late ...