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 ...

Large areas of our planet have been covered at times ... team decided to measure glacial isostatic rebound on Mars under the northern ice cap. It's about 1,000 kilometers wide and 3 kilometers ...

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, ...

The red planet Mars, named for the Roman god of war ... 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 ...

and the planet cooled. Except for the scraps frozen into the polar caps, its water was lost to space or stored away as subsurface ice. And this all happened billions of years ago. The early Mars ...

NASA predicts that the planet is due for another big storm ... Almost all water that exists on Mars now is ice. Ice caps are visible on the northern pole and scientists believe that much more ...

The full disc of Mars is seen with the polar ice caps slightly off centre to the top left and bottom right. Clouds wrap around the planet’s curved horizons. Dark surface markings are clearly seen ...

The color red and the planet Mars go ... seas that used to cover Mars, becoming incorporated into the underlying rocks. Volcanic activity could also have triggered ice-melting events, further ...