Like Earth, Mars has thick ice caps at both poles ... one mile but then changes to the signature of water. Esa said a lake 12 miles long likely existed about one mile beneath the southern Martian ...

The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it's telling us something about what the planet's ...

The ripples suggest that the lake was free of ice at one point. Today, we know of Mars as a cold, dry desert, with patches of subterranean ice and ice caps at its poles. Billions of years ago ...

The other set, found nearby in the Amapari Marker Band of rock, suggests the presence of a lake with up to ... formed in ancient, ice-free lakes in Gale crater, Mars, Science Advances (2025).

The three-kilometre-thick ice sheet covering Mars's north pole is young, formed between 2 and 12 million years ago. The ice sheet is bending the rocky crust beneath at a rate of 0.13 millimetres per ...

Did you know that Mars has *iridescent* clouds? Spotted by the @MarsCuriosity rover, these unique clouds are made of carbon dioxide ice and are only observed at twilight. What this helps us learn ...

There is something that makes this body of water extremely unique, and it's that scientists say that Lake Salda is the only place on the planet which is analogous to the Jezero Crater on Mars.

Despite the chilly temperatures, there could be liquid water underneath the surface ice ... lake, 20 kilometres across, hidden beneath the south pole. If there were once oceans on Mars, they ...

How the geysers form During winter, carbon dioxide ice builds up on Mars' surface. Unlike Earth's ice, this frozen carbon dioxide is transparent. Sunlight passes through it, warming the ground ...