Mars’ polar ice cap is slowly pushing its north pole inward
The north pole of Mars is slowly sinking under the weight of an ice cap that only formed within the past few million years. And, in the process, it's telling us something about what the planet's ...
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Arctic Ice Cap Melting Faster As North Pole Sees Record Temperatures
Douglas McIntyre, Editor-in-Chief at Climate Crisis, reports that temperatures at the North Pole are currently fifteen degrees above normal, accelerating the melting of the Arctic ice cap.
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Mars's northern ice cap is surprisingly young, planetary scientists find
The team concluded that the Martian northern polar cap is quite young ... fully deform under the weight of the ice. Broquet's group estimates that Mars's north pole surface area is currently ...
A doctor was deployed to an Arctic research station during the Cold War. Decades later, he learned its secret purpose
The “city under the ice” revealed a hidden chapter of the Cold War era and gave rise to a new field of scientific inquiry. As ice melt accelerates, its story isn’t over yet.
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Mars's northern ice cap is young with a cold, stiff mantle beneath
Together, the group has been able to determine the Red Planet’s interior structure and assess the age of its northern polar ice cap. The north pole of Mars is covered by a 1000-kilometre-wide, ...
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Arctic ice is melting faster than expected — and the culprit could be dust
"The Arctic is changing faster than anywhere else on the planet, so the question we’re trying to ask here is: Is the Arctic ...
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Global sea ice levels just hit a new record low
Sea ice cover in both the Antarctic and Arctic remained far below average throughout February as global average temperatures ...
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Japan’s first Arctic research vessel to probe secrets of ice cap
said Mirai II will be tasked with measuring the thickness and shape of the sea ice it cuts through as well as studying environmental conditions and living creatures in the north polar region.
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Polar Ice Caps Are a Rarity in Earth’s Geological History, the Result of a Series of Coincidences, Scientists Say
A new study led by a team of scientists from the University of Leeds has revealed that the cold conditions that have allowed the formation of polar ice caps on Earth are exceptional events in the ...