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Stories about: ice caps

Martian Ice Caps Are 95 Percent Pure According to an international study, published on Tuesday by French researchers, the massive ice cap at Mars' north pole is over 95 percent pure, and is thus made mostly of water. The news came as a shock to many people, because the implications of this are far-reaching. Biologists know that, wherever there is w... 21 January 2009 02:30 GMT Tundra Soil May Release Deadly Carbon Emissions Researchers collecting soil samples from several sites in Alaska discovered that a layer of permafrost, buried at a depth of about one meter (3 feet), is mostly made up of organic remains that have great carbon-emitting potential. Professor Chien-Lu Ping, leader of this study, said that this layer could represent a s... 9 October 2008 08:50 GMT