A photo authentically shows an ice-capped crater on Mars that was discovered in late 2024. This image, captured by ESA's Mars Express, showcases the Korolev crater, an 82-kilometer-wide structure ...

In late December 2024 and early January 2025, a photo circulated on multiple social media sites claiming to show an ice-capped crater on Mars (archived) that scientists recently discovered.

If you had the right instruments, a little bit of that layer could teach you a lot about Mars. You could scoop out the ice and hold it in your hands. You could watch as it vaporized into the ...