This week?s photos of ice evaporating in the dry Martian air and analyses at the Phoenix Mars Lander could shape the missions of Mars explorers not yet born.

Ice is vital to any human settlement or outpost, but also could reveal a lot about Martian history, said Frank Seelos, science operations lead for the CRISM instrument aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

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