Burroughs Crater Ice (IMAGE)

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Burroughs Crater Ice

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Layered ice in Burroughs crater on Mars, with imagery from THEMIS (left) and HiRISE (right panels). The ice layers here record climate oscillations now linked precisely to changes in Mars’ orbit and tilt, according to a new study in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters.

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Sori et al./Geophysical Research Letters

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