Previous research found possible signs of intermittent liquid water flowing on the martian ... proposed lake sits beneath ice near the south pole of Mars "It's probably not a very large lake ...

The researchers included the father-son team of Mark Thiemens, UC San Diego Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and ...

On this date, Jan. 18, 2004, the European Space Agency’s Mars Express finalized mapping of the Red Planet’s south pole. The ...

Instead, Mars’ south pole is covered in layers of carbon dioxide ... Unlike snow on Earth, Martian snow comes in two flavors: water ice and carbon dioxide, or dry ice. On the one hand, water ...

Formations that look like jumbo-sized kidney beans (or blobs of chocolate syrup, depending on your palette) may be indicators ...

Billions of years ago, Mars was warmer, and covered with liquid water, which likely carved ... It's a plane near the South Pole, covered in a sheet of ice nearly one and a half times as thick ...

Discoveries of clay minerals in Martian mounds by researchers indicate that Mars once had large bodies of water billions of ...

Morgan Nunn Martinez studied lunar rocks from the 1969 Apollo 9 mission to learn about the origin of moon water. They found ...

Mars' snow is made of carbon dioxide ice, not water ice. During the Martian winter ... As sunlight warms the carbon dioxide ice on Mars' south pole in the summer, the ice begins to sublimate ...