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NASA honing plans for its Mars Ice Mapper mission Space 21/12/2020 Meghan Bartels © Provided by Space Upper layers of frozen carbon dioxide have melted to show layers of frozen water ice at the South Pole of Mars in this image taken by NASA s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. When President Donald Trump s administration submitted its NASA budget request for this fiscal year in February, the documents contained a surprise for planetary scientists: the announcement of a new mission dubbed Mars Ice Mapper. But budget request documents aren t brimming with mission details and NASA has kept quiet about the new project, so understanding the story of Mars Ice Mapper has been difficult. Details remain scarce, but NASA officials offered a little more insight into the mission s origins and goals during a meeting held last month, calling Mars Ice Mapper an attempt to take advantage of a specific and unexpected opportunity with implications for a host of NASA priorities.

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