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Mars contains water, mostly as ice at its poles and underground.
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Is it true that Mars contains water, mostly as ice at its poles and underground?
Yes. A NASA astrobiology overview and the Wikipedia Mars article both state that most of Mars' water is frozen as polar ice caps, and the NASA piece plus several peer-reviewed studies also describe buried subsurface ice at mid-latitudes and near the poles.
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Water on Mars: The Story So Far | News | Astrobiology. (n.d.). astrobiology.nasa.gov. https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/news/water-on-mars-the-story-so-far/
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Noachian Crater Modification on Mars: Evidence for Cold-Based Crater Wall Glaciation and Endorheic Basin Formation. (2024). doi.org. https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc2020-976
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The effect of ground ice on the Martian seasonal CO 2 cycle. (2008). hal.science. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2007.08.006
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The effect of ground ice on the Martian seasonal CO2 cycle. (2008). doi.org. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2007.08.006
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Aurélien, S. & Guillaume, P. (2026). A Four Martian Years Climatology of the Vertical Properties of Martian Water Ice Clouds with TGO/ACS-MIR. zenodo.org. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21876227
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Checketts, B., Sori, M., Bramson, A., & Horgan, B. (2025). Outlier ice deposits at the poles of Mars as young climate records. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc-dps2025-1171
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Song, M., Zhong, Y., Ke, T., & Wang, X. (2025). Spectral evidence of hydrous minerals and water ice on southern Utopia Planitia, Mars. doi.org. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu25-5419
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A., M. G., E., P. N., & R., P. M. (2021). Availability of subsurface water-ice resources in the northern mid-latitudes of Mars. authors.library.caltech.edu. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-020-01290-z
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Mars. (n.d.). en.wikipedia.org. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars
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