Broquet and his team decided to measure glacial isostatic rebound on Mars under the northern ice cap. It's about 1,000 ... to predict the presence of local melt zones in the mantle near the ...

Thick ice sheets once depressed Earth's surface and, following their melting, it has slowly been rising ... structure and assess the age of its northern polar ice cap. The north pole of Mars is ...

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 ...

Over time, the warming effect would encourage the planet to thaw out more on its own and eventually lead to the creation of a more livable atmosphere on Mars ... buried ice will melt and seep ...

Antarctica as a whole is losing 130 billion tons of ice each year. This is the weight equivalent of 356,000 Empire State Buildings. This dramatic melting could cause serious issues for coastal ...

Scientists have found vast oceans of ice lying just below the surface of Mars in a major boost to the ... If it was to melt, it would cover the entire planet in an ocean at least 1,640ft deep.

Fears of the impact of global warming melting polar ice have intensified ... said he had never encountered open water there previously. The ice caps are estimated to be shrinking at the rate ...