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Carbon dioxide glaciers sculpted Martian south pole

Ice masses flowed into valleys and grew thick enough to remain frozen during warm spells.
The South Polar ice cap on Mars.

The ice cap at the Martian south pole contains both water ice and glaciers made of frozen carbon dioxide. Credit: Science History Images/Alamy

Glaciers of frozen carbon dioxide sprawl across Mars’s south pole — and might still be flowing1.

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Nature 605, 196 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-01223-y

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  1. Smith, I. B. et al. JGR Planets https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JE007193 (2022).

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