Martian Polar Ice Cap ”Surprisingly Young”?

Share it with your friends Like

Thanks! Share it with your friends!

Close

A team of German planetary scientists has concluded that a three-kilometer-thick northern polar ice cap on Mars has a “surprisingly young” age of between 2 and 12 million years.1,2 This age is much younger than uniformitarian age estimates for any other large feature on the red planet1 and is consistent with other clues suggesting that Mars is relatively young, not billions of years old.

As an ic… More…