In a recent conversation on global warming, someone told me that the polar ice caps on Mars were receding indicating that global warming is occuring on Mars as well as on Earth, and therefore that it is due to the Sun getting hotter and not to our own CO2 emissions.
I know that Mars has frozen CO2 polar ice caps that form and disappear over a Martian year (The frozen CO2 sublimes from the South pole and forms at the North and then back again as the seasons change). This is normal and is no indication of an overall warming trend there.
Does anyone know of any information that the more permanent ice caps on Mars are receding ,which WOULD be an indication that its getting hotter there too?
2006-07-02 07:54:43 · 3 answers · asked by Taoman 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
"Scientists have suspected in recent years that Mars might be undergoing some sort of global warming. New data points to the possibility it is emerging from an ice age."
2006-07-02 08:15:06 · answer #1 · answered by maegical 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
send Al Gore to Mars to check it out.
2006-07-02 16:46:15 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2006-07-02 15:00:24 · answer #3 · answered by Pink Panther 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋