Phoenix Mars Mission: Onto the Ice is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet ...

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 ...

Related: Mars ice deposits could pave the way for human ... That was found to be the case with the NASA Phoenix Mars lander mission in 2008, said Smith. The legged stationary spacecraft plopped ...

Did you know that Mars has *iridescent* clouds? Spotted by the @MarsCuriosity rover, these unique clouds are made of carbon dioxide ice and are only observed at twilight. What this helps us learn ...

"The most important new data, by far, was the surprising discovery from the Phoenix Mission that the soils of Mars contain about ... deposits and polar ground ice." This new research has been ...