Given that Mars is significantly colder and further from the Sun, it's easy to imagine that its polar ice caps have been there for ages, and the planet is frozen and static. But that isn't likely ...

A massive underground stash of water has just been discovered beneath one of Mars’s most enigmatic regions—the Medusae Fossae Formation—shedding new light on the Red Planet’s hidden potential. Buried ...

If you've ever looked at Mars through a telescope, you probably noticed its two polar ... indicate the ice cap is young—well more than any other large-scale feature seen on the planet.

The red planet Mars, named for the Roman god of war ... Not so today: Though water ice abounds under the Martian surface and in its polar ice caps, there are no large bodies of liquid water ...

The Medusae Fossae Formation of Mars has ice deposits over 2 miles deep, potentially providing vital water resources for ...

and the planet cooled. Except for the scraps frozen into the polar caps, its water was lost to space or stored away as subsurface ice. And this all happened billions of years ago. The early Mars ...

Together, the group has been able to determine the Red Planet’s interior structure and assess the age of its northern polar ice cap. The north pole of Mars is covered by a 1000-kilometre-wide, ...

Like Earth, Mars has polar ice caps, volcanoes, canyons and deserts ... Although Mars has much the same land mass as Earth, the planet is much smaller (about half the size).

This research contradicts previous studies using Marsquake data from NASA’s InSight Mars Lander, which supported the belief that the Red Planet ... features like polar ice caps, volcanoes ...

We have wondered for centuries whether our neighbouring planet is home to life ... There is plenty of water on Mars, but most of it is frozen in the polar ice caps and buried underground.

Mars' polar ice caps as a potential resource for colonisation ... Mars is not endowed with ample reserves of that resource on planet Earth utilized to generate energy. The colonists will therefore ...