It is unclear how the ice got buried, but this is not the first time that frozen water has been found beneath Mars' equator, suggesting it could be a good idea to set up future Martian bases near ...

Hera spacecraft captured an extraordinary near-infrared image of Mars’ moon Deimos during a flyby of the Red Planet. This ...

In 2004, the rover Opportunity found evidence that a salty sea once lapped the shores of an area near Mars' equator called Meridiani Planum. Astrobiologists generally agree that it's best to look ...

The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it's telling us something about what the planet's ...

Consider what it would be like to stand near Mars’ equator, where sunlight hits more directly than at higher latitudes. At noon, that would feel like a cold winter day in the northern United States ...

Elysium Planitia, sometimes referred to as the biggest parking lot on Mars. It's one of the plainest spots NASA could find and the perfect place for InSight. For one, it's close to the equator ...

Water may exist on Mars, but it's thought to be miles below the surface. The average temperature on Mars' equator is -81 degrees Fahrenheit, and regulating that would run up a huge heating bill.

However, captured bodies usually end up in eccentric, inclined and often retrograde orbits, whereas Phobos and Deimos orbit Mars in the red planet's equatorial plane and in prograde fashion.

"Although the mantle underneath Mars's north pole is estimated to be cold, our models are still able to predict the presence of local melt zones in the mantle near the equator," comments Doris Breuer, ...