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, 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 ...

The seasonal polar ice caps are a major element of the current Mars' climate and circulation. Understanding the sublimation and condensation of CO 2 and H 2 O is a key to understanding recent, current ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 on the surface there today. Mars also lacks an active plate ...

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 ...

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 ...