{"id":378506,"date":"2026-04-06T21:31:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/378506\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T21:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T21:31:07","slug":"icy-flow-in-a-crater-on-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/378506\/","title":{"rendered":"Icy Flow In A Crater On Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Icy-Flow-In-A-Crater.jpg\" alt=\"Icy Flow In A Crater On Mars\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                                                                                            ID: ESP_049028_2065 date: 10 January 2017 altitude: 287 km NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/University of Arizona <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uahirise.org\/hipod\/ESP_049028_2065\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Larger image<\/a>                                                                                                    <\/p>\n<p>The material on the floor of this crater appears to have flowed like ice, and contains pits that might result from sublimation of subsurface ice. The surface is entirely dust-covered today. There probably was ice here sometime in the past, but could it persist at some depth?<\/p>\n<p>This crater is at latitude 26 degrees north, and near-surface ice at this latitude (rather than further toward one of the poles) could be a valuable resource for future human exploration.<\/p>\n<p>A future orbiter with a special kind of radar instrument could answer the question of whether or not there is shallow ice at low latitudes on Mars.<\/p>\n<p>Astrobiology, Astrogeology,<\/p>\n<p>                                                                            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/keith_cowing.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Station Payload manager\/space biologist, Away Teams, Journalist, Lapsed climber, Synaesthete, Na\u2019Vi-Jedi-Freman-Buddhist-mix, ASL, Devon Island and Everest Base Camp veteran, (he\/him) \ud83d\udd96\ud83c\udffb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ID: ESP_049028_2065 date: 10 January 2017 altitude: 287 km NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/University of Arizona Larger image The material on the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[27947,181276,85,46,2758,69588,141,181277],"class_list":{"0":"post-378506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-glacier","9":"tag-https-astrobiology-com-2026-04-astrogeology","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-israel","12":"tag-mars","13":"tag-polar","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-subsurface-ice"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}