Sentences with phrase «martian polar ice caps»
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The sea is just 5 ° north of the Martian equator and would be the first discovery of a large body of water beyond the planet's polar ice caps.
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Following an expected soft landing in the northern polar region, Phoenix will study the planet's ice cap and use a robotic arm to dig into the Martian subsurface, collecting ice and soil samples.
Water seems to exist there only as ice, in the polar ice caps and perhaps under the Martian soil.
The theory went that Mars was once lush, but now was drying out, so the Martians had engineered the canals to route water down from the planet's polar ice caps to feed their civilization.