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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Mars's northern ice cap is surprisingly young, planetary scientists find
The team's measurements indicate the ice cap is young—well more than any ... "Although the mantle underneath Mars's north pole is estimated to be cold, our models are still able to predict ...
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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Rapidly eroding ice cap and thickness makes the Arctic even more vulnerable
The sea ice cap grows during the cold Arctic winters and shrinks when temperatures climb again, but over the last three decades, satellites have observed a 13% decline per decade in the summertime ...
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Greenland Ice Cap is now the largest contributor to global sea level rise — but why?
THE GREENLAND ICE CAP IS NOW THE THE LARGEST CONTRIBUTOR TO ... AND RECENTLY COMPLETED HIS 16TH ARCTIC EXPEDITION. RIGHT NOW, THE LARGEST SOURCE OF UNCERTAINTY IN THE MODELS OF THE GLOBAL SEA ...
Global sea ice cover hit a record low in February, researchers find
The findings from Europe’s Copernicus Climate Change Service involve the third warmest February on record for the planet.
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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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A doctor was deployed to an Arctic research station during the Cold War. Decades later, he learned its secret purpose
Uncle Sam “sent me to sit under the ice cap 800 miles (about 1,300 kilometers) from the North Pole,” recalled Dr. Robert Weiss, who was then 26 and is now the Donald Guthrie Professor of ...