If humans ever make it to Mars, here’s a prime piece of real estate for a base – an alluring patch of water ice on the floor of a crater near the Martian north pole.
The frozen “lake” was captured by a high-resolution camera on board the European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft, which is orbiting the Red Planet. The ice rises 200 metres above the floor of an impact crater located on Vastitas Borealis, a broad plain that covers much of the planet’s far northern latitudes. The unnamed crater is 35 kilometres wide and has a maximum depth of 2 kilometres below its rim.…
