The 82-kilometer-wide Korolev crater, found in the northern lowlands of Mars.

© ESA/DLR/FU Berlin260811Follow RT onThe European Space Agency has shared an incredible composite image showing a 50-mile wide crater on Mars that is filled with water ice all year long.

Budding future colonists hoping for a white Christmas on Mars will be somewhat disappointed as the ESA has confirmed that sitting in the Korolev crater is, in fact, a thick block of water ice, not snow. The enormous, 82-kilometer-wide, 2-kilometer-deep “ice trap” could still be good for ice skating though.

Sorgente: Water on Mars PICTURED: ESA shares incredible IMAGES of Martian ice crater — RT World News

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