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Morning frost detected on volcanoes near Mars’s equator

Morning frost has been spotted on volcanoes near Mars’s equator for the first time, a part of the planet where it was thought impossible for water frost to exist.

The “astonishing” discovery confirms that ice is not only confined to the red planet’s poles, and indicates that water ice is far more abundant across the planet than previously realised.

The frost, but across the Solar System.

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