Ice in a crater on Mars.. Picture

[Ichingcarpenter]

The Mars Express took this photo of a crater on Mars filled with water ice. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum

[drm604]

1. Any more info?

Do you have a link to the page? Where is this? On a pole?

[limpyhobbler]

2. wow that's big right? got link?

[drm604]

3. That picture's all over the net,

but I did find a NASA link with some more information.
http://www.nasa.gov/vision/earth/everydaylife/jamestown-water-fs_prt.htm

Residual water ice inside an unnamed impact crater on Vastitas Borealis, a broad plain that covers much of Mars' far northern latitudes. Credit: European Space Agency / ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Thanks.. I was off line for a while and I did get it

from the NASA site.

[FailureToCommunicate]

5. Enlargement clearly shows someone skating:

Tonya Harding?

[JDPriestly]

6. Is it really ice made of H2O or just something that looks like ice?

And what does this mean?

Is Mars earth after global warming???

[harmonicon]

7. Ice isn't necessarily water ice.

However, in the little snippet from NASA someone posted above, it was stated that this is a picture of water ice.

Earth after global warming? They're two different planets. All it means is that there's water on Mars (which does mean quite a lot, in fact).

[JDPriestly]

8. Amazing. Thanks for posting this.

[relayerbob]

9. While it is a good picture .....

It is well-known that water ice exists on Mars in large quantities.

[Thor_MN]

10. Pretty sure that the feature at the 10 oclock position is where they park the Zamboni.