Sentences with phrase «polar cap contains»
By comparison, the Antarctic ice sheet on Earth weighs about 4 × 1018 kg, and Mars» south polar cap contains about 1016 kg of water.
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Almost no liquid water is present on Mars, although the polar caps contain frozen water and carbon dioxide (dry ice).
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97 percent of the water on Earth is salt water, contained in the planet's oceans, seas, and inland salt water bodies, 2 percent of it (fresh water) is locked in the polar ice caps, and the remaining 1 percent is the fresh water we use everyday.