NASA Is Locating Ice on Mars With This New Map
The map could help the agency decide where the first astronauts to the Red Planet should land. The more available water, the less missions will need to bring.
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The map could help the agency decide where the first astronauts to the Red Planet should land. The more available water, the less missions will need to bring.
Bright reflections detected in 2018 by the Mars Express orbiter could indicate the presence of liquid water lakes beneath Mars south polar ice cap.
Tucson, Arizona (Arizona Daily Star) — If NASA’s latest Mars rover ever finds itself in need of a drink of water or a snow cone, the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute can help with that. A team from the private nonprofit research organization recently unveiled the most complete map yet of accessible water ice deposits on the red planet. The map probably won’t be of much use to the Perseverance rover, which prefers to keep its wheels dry, but it could be a literal lifeline for the first human visitors to Mars one day. “We’re looking at it from a resource point of view...