NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has taken a new and much clearer look at a confusing feature hidden deep under the ...
While the latest findings clarify that the feature is not an underground lake, they highlight the utility of the radar ...
Mars has never looked more like a world in transition, with ice emerging as the quiet architect of its past and a crucial ...
Mars’s Coloe Fossae reveals a landscape shaped by ancient ice ages, with deep valleys, cratered terrain, and frozen debris ...
Changes in Mars’ axial tilt (obliquity) drive shifts between polar ice caps at low obliquity and widespread mid-latitude glaciation at high obliquity. These cycles result in ice accumulating inside ...
On the flanks of Martian mountains and crater rims, curious shapes sprawl outward like thick syrup frozen mid-flow. But these are not rivers of rock or lava. They’re massive glaciers, hidden under ...
"Explosive volcanism could repeatedly seed low latitudes with ice and ash, producing buried or insulated ice deposits that help explain the excess hydrogen signals measured near the equator." Ancient ...