Not exact matches
Many scientists think these permanently shadowed regions, such as the floors on impact craters in the Moon's
polar regions, could hold large
deposits or water
ice.
After downloading a few files from his site and
depositing them in my Celestia folder, I found myself staring at a blue planet, cloud formations swirling across its surface, its vast oceans punctuated with landmasses and
polar ice caps.
«Some of the observed features included ancient river beds, craters, massive extinct volcanoes, canyons, layered
polar deposits, evidence of wind - driven deposition and erosion of sediments, weather fronts,
ice clouds, localized dust storms, morning fogs and more,» NASA wrote in a summary of the mission.
Because of this,
ice deposits in the
polar regions are likely to be diminished in the summer period, while the build - up of
ice in Tombaugh Regio may have endured for millions of years.
Permanently shadowed craters near the lunar
polar regions have been found to harbor water
ice deposits and organic compounds.
The rise of CO2 from 270ppm to now over 400ppm, the extent of equatorial and sub tropical deforestation, the soot
deposits on the
polar ice caps, the increase in atmospheric water vapour due to a corresponding increase in ocean temps and changes in ocean currents, the extreme
ice albedo currently happening in the arctic etc, etc are all conspiring in tandem to alter the climate as we know it.
The clues found in sediments
deposited during the late Holocene suggest that an ocean current that circles the southern
polar region, known as Circumpolar Deep Water, flowed underneath the Cosgrove
Ice Shelf and melted it.