Like Earth, Mars has thick ice caps at both poles ... one mile but then changes to the signature of water. Esa said a lake 12 miles long likely existed about one mile beneath the southern Martian ...

The surface of Mars is known for being an extremely cold, desiccated, and irradiated place. But as its many surface features ...

Lake Salda, in southwestern Turkey, bears a close resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater, which is currently being sampled by ...

and his colleagues detected a bright spot at the southern pole using radar data taken with the Mars Express spacecraft from May 2012 to December 2015. The team ruled out that carbon dioxide ice or ...

Radar scans reveal up to 2.2 miles of subsurface ice beneath Mars’s Medusae Fossae, per Geophysical Research Letters. The formation was long thought to be loose ash or dust—but its low density ...

Despite the chilly temperatures, there could be liquid water underneath the surface ice ... lake, 20 kilometres across, hidden beneath the south pole. If there were once oceans on Mars, they ...

Why it's incredible: The lake is the only place on Earth that's similar to Jezero crater on Mars. Lake Salda is a body of water in Turkey that bears a strong resemblance to Mars' Jezero crater.