New NASA Data Shows Mars, Earth Have Had Similar Climate Cycles

Examination of ice shows water transfer with climate change

PASADENA, Calif., May 3 /Standard Newswire/ -- Using observations by NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter, scientists have discovered that water ice lies at variable depths over small-scale patches on Mars.

The findings draw a much more detailed picture of underground ice on Mars than was previously available. They suggest that when NASA's next Mars mission, the Phoenix Mars Lander, starts digging to icy soil on an arctic plain in 2008, it might find the depth to the ice differs in trenches just a few feet apart. The new results appear in the May 3, 2007, issue of the journal Nature. (Full Story)