NASA scientists say they’ve identified thick masses of buried ice in the middle latitudes of Mars and radar mapping suggests the ice is commonplace.
The radar images were provided by the space agency’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is charting the hidden glaciers and ice-filled valleys that were first confirmed by radar two years ago.
NASA said the subsurface ice deposits extend for hundreds of miles in a region about halfway from the equator to the Martian north pole.