An artist's conception shows what NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed, vast Martian glaciers of water ice under protective blankets of rocky debris at much lower latitudes than any ice previously identified on the Red Planet. Scientists analyzed data from the spacecraft's ground-penetrating radar and report in the November 21, 2008 issue of the journal Science that buried glaciers extend for dozens of miles from edges of mountains or cliffs
This handout image, released November 20, 2008, shows a perspective view of a mountain in the eastern Hellas region of Mars surrounded by a lobate deposit with flow textures on the surface
This handout image, released November 20, 2008, shows a perspective view of a mountain in the eastern Hellas region of Mars surrounded by a lobate deposit with flow textures on the surface.
The optical microscope on NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander shows soil sprinkled from the lander's robot arm scoop onto a silicone substrate in this handout image released on June 13, 2008. This is the first sample collected and delivered for instrumental analysis onboard a planetary lander since NASA's Viking Mars missions of the 1970s.
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