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 ...

As Mars’ polar ice caps warm up, sublimated CO 2 gas explodes ... captured these “spiders” with stunning clarity near a south ...

The polar ice cap at the south pole is particularly bright, and wispy clouds are seen most clearly around the planet’s curved horizons. Mars is easily identifiable in the night sky by its ...

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, ...

There is plenty of water on Mars, but most of it is frozen in the polar ice caps and buried underground ... hidden beneath the south pole. If there were once oceans on Mars, they would not ...

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 ...