NASA's discovery of easily accessible ice on Mars could make it easier to send astronauts there
Share to twitterThis map shows underground water ice on Mars. Cool colors represent less than one foot below thesurface; warm colors are over two feet deep. The black zones on the map represent areas where a landing spacecraft would encounter dust. The outlined box represents an ideal region to send astronauts to have easy access to ice.
So how do you find water if it’s underground and you can’t land? You use what you know of the thermal properties of both rock and water and you have orbital satellites look downward to see the signal of subterranean water. and environment; it has detected large amounts of frozen water just below the surface. is a robotic spacecraft orbiting Mars. It was launched in 2001 and it is still functioning – holding the record for the longest operational instrument to study our planetary neighbour.
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