There is a case for a winter paradise on Mars.
"Dreaming of a white Christmas" doesn't bring to mind the alien landscapes on the Red planet. The space agency is happy with what's happened. It has done many missions over the past several decades that show how different Mars is from Earth.
Learning how humans can thrive off our planet is crucial to NASA's Artemis program. Water ice is a great find. The new video shows what snow, frost and ice looks like on Mars.
In this image, Mars is a winter paradise.
The first image of two.
"If you go to the right places, you will find water ice, just like we have on Earth," a JPL Mars scientist says in a video. Water ice was seen just below the surface when NASA's Phoenix Mars landers landed in 2008.
The kind of water ice that astronauts could potentially use in the future could be found here.
Dry ice is a form of carbon dioxide. CO2 ice sublimates instead of melting. This material becomes gas as it turns from solid to gas.
"For example, we see spider-shaped features, fans, geysers, Dalmatian spots, fried eggs, all kinds of unique objects that are difficult to understand, but that are beautiful and unique to Mars."
There are ice crystals on Mars. Water ice crystals fell from a cloud when Phoenix used its Canadian-built LIDAR to shoot a laser into the planet's sky.
Some places on Mars are covered in frost. In the 70s, NASA's Viking landers captured images of water frost, and more recently, Odyssey and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have observed its CO2 frost.
It's something that we don't have on Earth. It is very cold where CO2 ice is found.
The U.S. is bracing for a bomb cyclone this weekend.
NASA put winters on these two planets into perspective.
The statement says that no region of Mars gets more than a few feet of snow. Don't expect snowdrifts worthy of the Rockies.
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