Space · Item
Martian polar ice
The caps' layered ice streaked with dust, and the white frost of frozen carbon dioxide.
In the game
How to get it
Mine the polar caps of Mars, beyond about 72 degrees of latitude.
What it is for
Water, and the carbon of the methane that fuels the rest of the voyage.
Why it exists
Mars's water is frozen at its poles.
The same text the game shows in its progress tree and on the item's sheet (I).
On the progress path
MR1MarsMain path
A sub-action of the step Land on Mars: not needed to go on, but counted in your progress.
- This stepMR1 · Land on Mars
- NextMR2 · Colonist drones: aresite chips