This image of Mars shows the north polar ice cap, the border between highlands and lowlands, former river valleys, plains covered by dark sands and the large Hellas Planitia impact basin in the south. Credit: ESA/DLR/FU BerlinUndendingGloom t1_j96r7ui wrote
If there is desert and ice, is there not water where the two meet somewhere?
kerfitten1234 t1_j96w8e9 wrote
Mars is a cold desert, like Antarctica. Also mars' atmosphere is too thin to allow water to exist in liquid form on the surface, except in special circumstances.
Zealousideal-Bet-950 t1_j96x5fo wrote
Its my understanding that the frozen stuff sublimates into the atmosphere without spending much time sloshing around...
MassProductionRagnar t1_j970kfe wrote
Desert just means dry. All of it is frozen though.
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