In fact, it's carbon dioxide ice, and at Mars' south pole, there's 26-foot-thick (8-meter-thick) layer of it year-round. (These image was actually taken near the summer solstice, not the winter ...

Gravity will be a challenge — scientists are worried that Mars lacks the "pull" to keep whatever atmosphere is created. Thawing the Pole The Martian South pole has a coating of dry ice (which is ...

An instrument aboard the Vikram lander suggests that buried water ice could be found at higher latitudes, making it more ...

Imagine you could vacation on Mars. At first glance ... It's a plane near the South Pole, covered in a sheet of ice nearly one and a half times as thick as the East Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Despite the chilly temperatures, there could be liquid water underneath the surface ice in some places ... hidden beneath the south pole. If there were once oceans on Mars, they would not have ...

Witness the team gear up for the 2,000-mile journey to the Ross Ice Shelf and ride the very ... driest desert on Earth - all the way to the South Pole.

There’s ice in them thar craters. The south pole of the moon is home to permanently ... into fuel for spacecraft venturing to the moon, Mars, and beyond. “I’m fond of saying that water ...