Is there quicksand on mars?

I proposed this before, last year,
the old Russian sonde transmitted only for a very short time...
Things land but no signal.
Could there be a thin frosted layer that a lander would sink through
within minutes?
Again I als want to point out AGAIN that it is cheaper to
not send a lander then one that does not transmit data when landing.
In both cases you learn / know nothing.

Maybe we will have to wait for a nuclear powered lander that can hoover
and move to a suitable site.
Will perhaps be cheaper in the end.

Jan Panteltje wrote in
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I proposed this before, last year,
the old Russian sonde transmitted only for a very short time...

Don't bet on it. Quicksand is just mud, which is mostly water. If there
was any swampland on Mars, the scientists would have recognized it's
geological structure from orbit. And Mars is pretty cold, so it would be
frozen. If there were fields of dirty ice on the surface of Mars, we'd
probably know it from spectrometry.