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The search for water ice on Mars.

            
             This article will show how humans are working together to find water ice on Mars. The search for water ice on mars can be broken down into three segments. The most recent and current missions to find water ice since 1996. The results of the mission and the experiments used to find water ice. The future plans for exploring Mars. .
             In order to gain our knowledge of Mars we must use a certain types of exploring devices. Flybys are when we have a satellite take information as it passes the object on its way to another area. Orbiters are going to play a key role in the future of our space program. By taking highly detailed images from space, orbiters circling Mars have revealed a ton of information about the planet's atmosphere, topography and subsurface characteristics. Orbiters on future missions will examine the planet's surface even more precisely. They will also search for evidence of water's existence both now and in the past, on the surface and underground. Orbiters will also play a key role as communications relays for the assets such as rovers, landers and aerial vehicles on the surface or in the atmosphere of Mars. .
             Orbiters may also play a vital role in bringing back samples from the surface of Mars. Landers and rovers will be used to gather information on the planet. A rover will send back information such as pictures, chemical analyses of rocks and soil. It can inform us about the weather and the atmospheric make of the planet. How violent the weather is. The most important thing a rover can tell us if there is water ice on Mars by either seeing it and checking its composition or in the future by drilling for it. .
             The lander will eventually send samples back to Earth for us to experiment on. In 1996 the United States launched the Mars Global Surveyor. Mars Global Surveyor became the first successful mission to the red planet in two decades when it launched November 7, 1996, and entered orbit on September 12, 1997.


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