The surface of Mars is extremely cold, irradiated, and desiccated. But at one time, the planet was much warmer and wetter, ...

A crater on Mars has a bright patch of ice. It's the second time in over a decade that the crater and ice has been observed ...

Visit ancient Mars—a surprisingly temperate planet where snow or rain falls from the sky, and rivers rush down valleys to ...

Mars may have experienced rainfall and river flow billions of years ago, reshaping the Red Planet's surface and supporting a ...

While it may seem like another dusty region of Mars, fresh data from a deep-penetrating radar system tells a very different story. This giant deposit might be hiding a frozen ocean under layers of ...

If you had the right instruments, a little bit of that layer could teach you a lot about Mars. You could scoop out the ice and hold it in your hands. You could watch as it vaporized into the ...

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And we also looked at the amount of ice that is available. It’s not the same everywhere on Mars. There are areas where there is almost no ice on Mars and there are areas where there’s a lot of ...

The atmosphere on Mars is 95% CO₂ and the average temperatures below -50 °C. Probes have found evidence of ice on Mars, and many of the elements that would be needed to sustain life.

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The atmosphere on Mars is 95% CO₂ and the average temperatures below -50 °C. Probes have found evidence of ice on Mars, and many of the elements that would be needed to sustain life.