Mars's dramatic climate variations are driven by the Sun

Thursday, September 6, 2012 - 13:30 in Astronomy & Space

On Mars's poles there are ice caps of ice and dust with layers that reflect to past climate variations on Mars. Researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute have related the layers in the ice cap on Mars's north pole to variations in solar insolation, thus established the first dated climate history for Mars, where ice and dust accumulation has been driven by variations in insolation.

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