I f you've ever looked at Mars through a telescope, you probably noticed its two polar ice caps. The northern one is made largely of water ice—the most obvious sign that Mars was once a wetter ...

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The Mars water debate continues. A team of scientists suggests vast oceans of water may not be locked within the Red Planet's ...

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 ...

remains on the surface of the regolith as stable adsorbed water. The study also showed that the soil on Mars could keep ice near the surface in the middle and lower areas because water vapor moves ...

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 ...

The ferrihydrite might have formed back when there was still water ... to cover Mars, becoming incorporated into the underlying rocks. Volcanic activity could also have triggered ice-melting ...

Scientists searching for the fossilized remains of ancient microbes on Mars now have ... That liquid water has now all gone, either frozen into polar ice caps or as permafrost beneath the surface ...

The fate of Mars' water -- whether it was buried as ice, confined in deep aquifers, incorporated into minerals or dissipated into space -- remains an area of ongoing research, one of particular ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Mars's northern ice cap is relatively young, with an estimated age between 2 and 12 million years. The ice cap is causing the ground beneath it to depress at a ...