Harish,HarishVijayan, S.S.VijayanMangold, N.N.MangoldBhardwaj, AnilAnilBhardwaj2025-08-312025-08-312020-07-2810.1029/2020GL0890572-s2.0-85088567154https://d8.irins.org/handle/IITG2025/24083We report new exposures of water ice along the scarps wall located within craters in the northern midlatitude region of Mars using high-resolution imagery and spectral data of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The exposed water-ice deposits are shallower and exhibit 1.5 and 2 μm absorption. These scarps are located on the pole-facing walls and equator-facing wall origin floor deposits which formed over the latitude dependent mantle. Our observations advance in bracketing the younger ice deposits through the crater size-frequency distributions of host craters, which formed around ~25 and ~95 Myr and exposed around ~1 Myr. This reveals that ice transportation, accumulation, compaction, and ice-dust mixing occurred in recent epochs. Our study complements the earlier studies that shallow water ice is spatially widespread and consistent with subsurface water-ice detection by neutron spectrometer. We interpret the ice remnants likely to preserve in craters pole-facing wall and equator-facing wall-associated floor deposits, which demonstrates widespread water-ice resources on Mars.falsecrater | Mars | water iceArticlehttps://hal.science/hal-029336631944800728 July 202013e2020GL089057arJournal11WOS:000556707300025