Much more liquid water may lie beneath Mars' south pole than scientists had thought — or there may be something going on down there that they don't fully understand.

Spectral images from Europe's Mars Express orbiter show that there is plenty of water ice at the southern pole of Mars, a place where H2O was thought to be scarce.

But the south pole on Mars hasn’t always been frozen. In fact, it was probably very wet billions of years ago. “There’s been a lot of debate about how wet and how cold Mars was in the past ...

Mars' south pole gets its bright look from an ice cap made up mainly of carbon dioxide. According to NASA, carbon dioxide freezes at -193 degrees Fahrenheit (-125 degrees Celsius).

Mars south pole ESA/DLR/FU BERLIN, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO . The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft has sent back a unique glimpse of the Red Planet: a sweeping view of Mars' south polar ice ...

In fact, it's carbon dioxide ice, and at Mars' south pole, there's 26-foot-thick (8-meter-thick) layer of it year-round.

The debate is reignited this week with new evidence from NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor satellite that supports the liquid water hypothesis. The radar signals from the 2018 study pointed to a 12 ...

Europe's Mars Express and Trace Gas Orbiter missions captured a variety of cryptic surface features poking through melting ...

The reflections from under Mars’ south pole could be caused by layers of ice and carbon dioxide . Adam Smith. Thursday 06 October 2022 13:59 BST. Comments (Nasa) Your support helps us to tell ...

The south pole in particular is apparently a hot spot for subglacial lakes, according to data from the Mars Express spacecraft. Future missions could investigate the claims and provide proof. Just ...

This annotated image shows the unusual landscape features of the Australe Scopuli region near Mars' south pole, each labelled in the text. From left to right: a stack of layered deposits, areas with ...

A new image from DLR's Mars High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) shows the enigmatic Angustus Labyrinthus in the south polar region of Mars. The structure exhibits a rectilinear pattern of ridges and ...