News tagged with polar ice cap
Planetary scientists solve 40-year-old mysteries of Mars' northern ice cap
Scientists have reconstructed the formation of two curious features in the northern ice cap of Mars—a chasm larger than the Grand Canyon and a series of spiral troughs—solving a pair of mysteries dating back ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 26, 2010 |
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Strange Martian Spirals Explained
Almost 40 years ago, NASA's Mariner 9 spacecraft relayed to Earth the first video images of Mars' northern polar ice cap, revealing a strange pattern of spiral swirls that has puzzled scientists ever since. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 16, 2010 |
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Out of thin Martian air
A wet Mars is just a memory, but where did the water go?
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 23, 2011 |
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Arctic ice cap near 2007 record minimum: Russia
The polar ice cap in the Arctic has melted to near its 2007 record minimum level and in some areas is 50 percent smaller than average, Russia's environmental monitoring agency said Thursday.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Aug 04, 2011 |
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Ancient fossils hold clues for predicting future climate change, scientists report
(PhysOrg.com) -- By studying fossilized mollusks from some 3.5 million years ago, UCLA geoscientists and colleagues have been able to construct an ancient climate record that holds clues about the long-term ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Apr 08, 2011 |
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Europe, US to see snowy, cold winters: expert
Europe, North America and east Asia can expect more cold, moist and snowy winters such as the one just passed, a top scientist said Friday.
Jun 11, 2010 |
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Arctic ice cap 'to disappear in future summers'
The Arctic ice cap will disappear completely in summer months within 20 to 30 years, a polar research team said as they presented findings from an expedition led by adventurer Pen Hadow.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Deep in sediments off Antarctica, Stanford scientists find insight into past -- and possible future -- climates
(PhysOrg.com) -- From the Antarctic Ocean, Earth scientist Rob Dunbar blogs about the challenges of drilling ancient deep-sea sediments -- and what he's found in them.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 18, 2010 |
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Resupplied North Pole explorers resume trek
Three British explorers fighting to survive a gruelling trek to the North Pole finally resumed their journey Friday after receiving vital supplies of food, fuel and equipment, organizers said.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Mar 20, 2009 |
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Beetles, wildfire: Double threat in warming world
(AP) -- A veil of smoke settled over the forest in the shadow of the St. Elias Mountains, in a wilderness whose spruce trees stood tall and gray, a deathly gray even in the greenest heart of a Yukon summer.
Aug 23, 2009 |
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Satellite Used in Polar Research Enters Retirement
(PhysOrg.com) -- After a long career providing communications support, NASA's Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS) 1 is retiring. From 1983 to 1998, TDRS-1 allowed NASA to talk to other satellites in orbit. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 25, 2010 |
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