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originally posted in: Why is Mars not WHITE
1/28/2015 6:00:50 PM
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Mars' atmosphere is generally not conducive to holding large quantities of water vapor or liquid water, which would be needed to make bulk amounts of snow. There is ice on Mars. The polar ice caps contain a lot. But, any water ice that is melted sublimates directly into water vapor. Any snow that falls on the equatorial lines are rapidly heated, and with the very low surface pressure, it sublimates again. It just doesn't stick around.
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