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 ...

Similarly, they argue that subglacial melting formed the shallow channels in the region, leaving behind a proglacial lake with ... too cold for ice to melt at that time. More recent observations have ...

The Earth's nodding, though relatively modest, influences the rhythm of our ice ages. Mars nods much more vigorously ... landing site—may have been a lake bed more than once as long-lost ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Imagine you could vacation on Mars. At first glance ... North Pole Our first stop, the North Pole. This ice cap is bigger than Texas, and is mostly covered in water ice and solid carbon dioxide ...