In 2010, the European Space Agency launched Cryosat, a spacecraft designed to monitor changes in the shape and thickness of polar ice on Earth. It’s taken the scientists behind the project some ...

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 ...

Home; Digest; speed read Pluto may have polar ice cap, new images reveal. Ground-breaking Nasa images are 'just an appetite-whetter' as New Horizons spacecraft speeds towards the dwarf planet ...

Mars’ polar ice cap is slowly pushing its north pole inward ... In addition, radar imaging from in orbit has created images of Mars' polar ice caps that extend down to the crust itself.

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 ...

When we talk about the polar ice caps, we’re talking about the massive layers of ice and snow that cover Antarctica, Greenland, and portions of Canada and Russia. It’s normal for Arctic ice to ...