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Processes of Science: Mars, a Case Study #6004 Icy Layers and Climate Fluctuations Near the Martian North Pole

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Date: March 11, 2010
Location: Mars
Photographer: unknown
Source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona

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In the Martian north polar region, layered deposits are an ice sheet, much like the Greenland ice sheet on the Earth.
Just as with the ice sheet in Greenland, this Martian ice sheet contains many layers that record variations in the Martian climate. Sometimes icy layers can be ablated away during warm climates. Later the ice sheet can be buried by new ice layers and grow in size again. It’s likely that many of these cycles have occurred over the ice sheet’s history.

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