You can't have ice with no water, Mars Looks like a desert because it is covered in iron rust, which also gives the planet a red hue, Mars is actually quite cold, average temperatures in the tropical zones on Mars are 0 degrees Celsius, deadly radiation strips the planet of all but a minuscule carbon dioxide and other trace gasses atmosphere so it cannot regulate heat, however it does have a weather system, dust devils occur regularly on the surface, it is home to some of the largest mountains in the solar system including Olympus mons and the tharsis montes, it also has various canal systems which are believed to be caused by water which may have existed at some point in Mars past, it is also NOT the furthest planet out in the solar system, it is actually the fourth out of 8 planets in our solar system and the last of the 4 terrestrial planets in our solar system As well as marking the inner boundary of the asteroid belt, it's day is 25 hours long, and it takes 500 or so earth days to make a full revolution around the sun, it is about the third The size of earth and has no magnetic field Present, therefore Anything on the surface would be bombarded by deadly radiation and killed nearly instantly in broad daylight, the furthest planet out is actually neptune(formerly Pluto), and it is the 4th and last of the Jovian planets