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 ...

As Mars’ polar ice caps warm up, sublimated CO 2 gas explodes out in tall geysers, forming spider-like formations in their ...

Mars' northern winter, by contrast, is not only shorter than southern winter, but it also coincides with dust storm season. As a result, the northern polar seasonal cap contains a higher ...

and NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2005) mapped Mars's north polar cap, revealing the interface between the ice and underlying bedrock. Surprisingly, while large ice-sheets substantially ...

Like Earth, Mars has polar ice caps, volcanoes, canyons and deserts. This image was stitched together from a series of photos from the Viking Orbiter — one of the communications relay stations ...

In addition, Mars’s orbit is less circular than Earth’s ... Though water ice abounds under the Martian surface and in its polar ice caps, there are no large bodies of liquid water on the ...

CREDIT: A.Valantinas. “This study is the result of the complementary datasets from the fleet of international missions exploring Mars from orbit and at ground level,” Colin Wilson, the ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Mars's northern ice cap is relatively young, with an estimated age between 2 and 12 million years. The ice cap is causing the ground beneath it to depress at a ...

Scientists have identified another possible commonality between Earth and Mars: a solid inner core. Scientists have ...

"Hindsight is always 100 percent, but if they (the Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander) were a little less cheap, they would have been better," he said. Next year's launch of a Mars lander of ...

Why the fascination with Mars? Here's everything you need to ... It's about half our planet's size, has variable seasons, polar ice caps, and plains and gullies possibly shaped by water flow.