Narrowing down the location of buried ice on Mars could help the space agency decided where to land its astronauts on future missions.
A new map of subsurface water on Mars just dropped, and it reveals regions on the Red Planet where ice may be buried beneath the surface for future astronauts to use. This week, the NASA-funded Subsurface Water Ice Mapping project released its fourth set of maps, which the space agency is calling the “most detailed” since the project first began in 2017.
The real sweet spot for astronauts to land on Mars would be at the southernmost edge of the northern mid-latitudes region, where it’s close enough to the buried ice but also not too far from the equator so that astronauts can enjoy slightly warmer weather. “If you send humans to Mars, you want to get them as close to the equator as you can,” Sydney Do, SWIM project manager at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a statement.
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