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 ...

An early version of the north polar 3-D volume helped to assess the quantity of water ice transferred to the polar caps in the most recent retreat from a Martian ice age.

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.

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 caps are slowly melting. Nature ... Malin and his colleagues studied photos of the two ice caps taken between October 1999 and August 2001 1.

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 ...

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 camp in the ...

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 ...

Polar bear photos were once seen as a compelling tool to inspire donations from sympathetic audiences (Credit: Getty Images) For decades distressed polar bears on distant ice caps were an emblem ...