In 2010, the European Space Agency launched Cryosat, a spacecraft designed to monitor changes in the shape and thickness of polar ... images offer an unprecedented view of the state of our ice caps.

Three-dimensional subsurface images are revealing structures within the Martian polar ice caps, including previously obscured layering, a larger volume of frozen carbon dioxide contained in the ...

Scientists believe Pluto could have a polar ice cap, after analysing the first images received from the New Horizons spacecraft. Although the dwarf planet appears as little much more than a ...

In addition, radar imaging from in orbit has created images of Mars' polar ice caps that extend down to the crust itself. This can provide information on how badly the shape of the area differs ...

They're especially excited by a bright spot that appears all throughout the images, right at Pluto's polar region. While they can't be sure yet, they think it could be an ice cap. We'll have to ...

The pictures show ridges and pits of ice, some just a few metres wide ... The researchers find that the size of the north and south polar caps seem to change by about the same amount, despite ...

Getty Images) For decades distressed polar bears on distant ice caps were an emblem for climate change – until experts began to doubt the effectiveness of these visuals. In a derelict hunting ...

Although experts are in agreement that ice caps are melting at record rates, some have warned that images of distressed polar bears might not tell the full story. Sea ice concentrations have ...

When we talk about the polar ice caps, we’re talking about the massive ... Marco Brivio/Stockbyte Unreleased/Getty Images “It’s not going to happen, even over 100 years — it will take ...