Thursday, April 5, 2007

Global Warming on Mars

Dust Storms Fuel Global Warming on Mars (SPACE.com)

The planet Mars is pictured in this March 10, 1997 Hubble Space Telescope file photograph. Mars is grappling with its own form of climate change as fluctuating solar radiation is kicking up dust and winds that may be melting the planet's southern polar ice cap, scientists said on Wednesday. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY NO SALES NO ARCHIVES (David Crisp and the WFPC2 Science Team - jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology/Handout/Reuters)SPACE.com - Shifting dust storms on Mars might be contributing to global warming there that is shrinking the planet's southern polar ice caps, scientists say.


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