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Finding water ice on Mars is difficult, as the planet’s thin atmosphere causes any liquid water on the surface to evaporate instantly.
That’s why NASA has funded the Subsurface Water Ice Mapping project, which aims to locate the best places to access water ice buried under the Martian surface. SWIM has recently released its fourth set of maps, the most detailed and accurate ones since the project started in 2017. “If you send humans to Mars, you want to get them as close to the equator as you can,” said Sydney Do, JPL’s SWIM project manager. “The less energy you have to spend on keeping astronauts and their equipment warm, the more you have for other things they’ll need.”The previous versions of SWIM’s map relied on lower-resolution cameras, radar, thermal mappers, and spectrometers, which can only suggest the presence and amount of buried ice but not confirm it.
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