The team concluded that the Martian northern polar cap is quite young, and it's depressing the ground underneath. "We show that the ice sheet pushes the underlying ground into the mantle at a rate ...
Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...
Its landing site was targeted for the far northern plains of Mars, near the northern polar ice cap. Data from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft indicate large quantities of ice there, likely in the form ...
The surface of Mars is known for being an extremely cold, desiccated, and irradiated place. But as its many surface features ...
The Medusae Fossae Formation of Mars has ice deposits over 2 miles deep, potentially providing vital water resources for ...
Its landing site was targeted for the far northern plains of Mars, near the northern polar ice cap. Data from the Mars Odyssey spacecraft indicate large quantities of ice there, likely in the form ...
On Mars, the northern hemisphere’s spring and summer ... Not so today: Though water ice abounds under the Martian surface and in its polar ice caps, there are no large bodies of liquid water ...
Like Earth, Mars has polar ice caps, volcanoes ... Almost all water that exists on Mars now is ice. Ice caps are visible on the northern pole and scientists believe that much more exists locked ...
The melting of the Greenland ice sheet is now the largest contributor to sea level rise, and scientists at UNH are traveling ...
YOKOHAMA--Japan’s first Arctic research vessel now under construction here will be capable of smashing through sea ice up to 1.2 meters thick to reach the northern polar region to study sea ...
How is climate change affecting polar regions? Climate change is amplified in the polar regions. The northern ... ice-albedo feedback. Surface temperatures in the Arctic Ocean are warming more rapidly ...