Perseverance rover uncovers intriguing new clues about water on Mars | CNN
Perseverance rover uncovers intriguing new clues about water on Mars | CNN
After 1,000 days on the Martian surface, the Perseverance rover has collected samples that reveal the history of water within Jezero Crater.
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Let me guess: it's gone
lol for this area, yes, but there actually is water ice on Mars!
Wow, you should work for NASA then, because they haven't found it yet aside from vapour.
There’s plenty of ice at the Martian poles – mostly made of water, although carbon dioxide, or dry ice, can be found as well – but those regions are too cold for astronauts (or robots) to survive for long.
You want to dig down deeper there?
"...due to water vapour"
Did you read the article? Because nowhere in the article does the phrase "due to water vapo(u)r" exist. In fact, they explicitly talk about why water vapor is prevalent and related to ice, and why subsurface ice scanning is so important (and is the only text I could find referencing vapor at all):
The need to look for subsurface ice arises because liquid water isn’t stable on the Martian surface: The atmosphere is so thin that water immediately vaporizes. There’s plenty of ice at the Martian poles – mostly made of water, although carbon dioxide, or dry ice, can be found as well – but those regions are too cold for astronauts (or robots) to survive for long.
They also talk about how NASA is not only aware of this but helping to fund the scanning technology that's being used to detect the subsurface ice. It's literally all in the article
It’s true that water is itself unstable because of the pressure or lack thereof, but I was always talking about water in its ice form my friend, you should read the article I linked from NASA, it’s super neat!