Can surface fractures on Earth, Mars, and Europa predict habitability on other planets?
When a mudflat crumbles on Earth, or an ice sheet splinters on one of Jupiter's moons (Europa), or an ancient lakebed breaks ...
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ESA scientists capture image of thousands of black spiders on the surface of Mars
There aren’t any creepy crawlies on Mars, but fresh images from an orbiting probe show a swarm of 'spiders' seemingly ...
IFLScience25d
The Greenland Ice Sheet Is Falling Apart – New Study
I have thought we were hovering high in the sky over a featureless icy plane below, before bumping down gently onto ice only a few metres below us. Crevasses – cracks in the surface of glaciers ...
Alaska Public Media25d
Portage glacier calved during peak ice-skating season, a near miss of a national tragedy
Lauren Jobe was skating on Portage Lake on Monday, Feb. 10, when she heard the glacier start cracking ... onto the ice, shattering it and triggering waves beneath the frozen surface.
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Greenland’s glaciers are melting faster than anyone expected - study
Crevasses are wedge-shaped fractures and cracks in the surface of glaciers formed by extensive stress within the ice. Water from melting snow on the surface can flow through crevasses to the ...
Erie Times-News15d
The icing on the lake: How frozen is Lake Erie at end of February?
Those cracks will cause the ice surface to be slightly unstable. With that the winds cause the ice to move around in a more eastern direction. "The winds will push the ice to the eastern half of the ...
Lansing State Journal on MSN14d
Warm weather is making ice unsafe. What the Coast Guard says you should know in Michigan
With temperatures climbing into the 50s in some areas, the Coast Guard is warning people to stay off the ice or take precautions.