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Maybe that's not liquid water on Mars after all

Maybe that's not liquid water on Mars after all

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·November 23, 2025
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VladVladikoff

Is there a reason we have not yet explored it directly with a rover? Aren’t there multiple rovers on mars? Surely taking samples from this ice is more important than examining rocks??

jvanderbot

Because launching a robot is a multi billion dollar affair and the robots we have launched are very far from the south pole. This is a whole planet after all, and they move on the scale of meters per second for maybe a few hours / day.

worldsavior

I assume because of the conditions on Mars. The ice could actually be much deeper than thought.