ESA - Mars Express - Water ice in crater at Martian north pole
These images, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, show a patch of water ice sitting on the floor of an unnamed crater near the Martian north pole.
This white patch is present all year round, as the temperature and pressure are not high enough to allow sublimation of water ice.
It cannot be frozen carbon dioxide since carbon dioxide ice had already disappeared from the north polar cap at the time the image was taken (late summer in the Martian northern hemisphere).
How does the presence of water ice on Mars change the strategy and/or timeline for Martian exploration?
Can we extrapolate about the presence of water ice in other shadowed areas?
Why go to Mars?
posted by Cosmic Bob @ 12:13 PM
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Mars looks like great place for vacation but I think we should study space colonization some more by first populating the moon. When we accomplish a base on the moon, than I think we should go out from there. It can be our Stanton Island for earth.
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