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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The first pictures, which the lander began taking shortly after touching down near Mars' north pole -- the end ... near the northern polar ice cap. Data from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft indicate ...

Glacier-like features, where a mass of material appears to have flowed downhill between two ridges, hint at where ice probably accumulated in the past in the mid-latitudes of Mars. Credit ...