During a digging operation in the Martian dirt, Phoenix exposed what the experts say, some ice fragments.
The ice fragments initial photographed in the furrow that was dugg by Phoenix disappeared after a while, most probably because of evaporation, said the physician Peter Smith, from Tucson University, Arizona.
“That tiny fragments of ice completely disappeared after some [...]

Scientists have discovered that when NASA’s Phoenix spacecraft landed on Mars, it exposed what seems to be ice when the soil was blown away.
Still, scientists are unsure whether this was actually ice or not. They will get full confirmation when the probe excavates and analyzes the layers in the nearby workspace.
The Phoenix is equipped [...]

After traveling about 680 million km through space, the space probe Phoenix has finally landed on the planet mars. Launched on the 4th of August 2007 from NASA, the probe will have to study the samples of water from the permafrost layer situated i the arctic area of Mars, in order to find out if [...]

Even though astronomers can now map the surface of Mars, getting information about the underground has proved to be quite difficult. To this end, a new technology that can achieve this has been created - MARSIS, EPA’s Mars Express radar sounder.
MARSIS stands for Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding, and it managed to [...]