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Orbiters could find ice on Mars for future human missions By Ashley Strickland, CNN enablePagination: false endIndex: (CNN) — Mars is too cold for liquid water to exist on its surface, but a wealth of ice may exist just beneath the surface in certain regions. Future human missions to Mars could use this ice as a resource and study it to learn about the planets past. The Italian Space Agency, the Canadian Space Agency, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and NASA have announced they inten...

Orbiters could find ice on Mars for future human missions CNN 2/4/2021 By Ashley Strickland, CNN © NASA This artists illustration shows the four orbiters of the International Mars Ice Mapper (I-MIM) mission concept. Mars is too cold for liquid water to exist on its surface, but a wealth of ice may exist just beneath the surface in certain regions. Future human missions to Mars could use this ice as a resource and study it to learn about the planets past. The Italian Space A...