The south polar region of Mars When it was shared: Jan. 29, 2025 Why it's so special: These odd, fan-like features on the ...

The first craft, the British-led Beagle 2, piggybacked on Europe's Mars Express orbiter ... When the poles dip by 35 degrees or so, the residual polar ice caps will no longer be stable in summer.

Recently released images show the frigid conditions of Mars' poles. Follow Tech Insider: On Facebook More from Science Humanity's next destination could very well be Mars. But, unlike Earth ...

This NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter image, acquired on May 13, 2018, during winter at the South Pole of Mars, shows a carbon dioxide ice cap covering the region and as the sun returns in the spring, ...

and NASA says that winter on Mars tends to see at least a few feet of this dry ice snow falling in the flat regions near its northern and southern poles. Sylvain Piquieux, a Mars scientist working ...

Imagine you could vacation on Mars. At first glance ... isn't all that different from our own. North Pole Our first stop, the North Pole. This ice cap is bigger than Texas, and is mostly covered ...

Why it's so special: These odd, fan-like features on the surface of Mars are geysers of gas and dust near the planet's south pole that are ... carbon dioxide ice accumulates near the surface.