Paris, September 23 : Data from ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) Mars Express spacecraft has enabled scientists to better explain why Mars’s residual southern ice cap is misplaced, attributing the cause of the mystery to the Martian weather system.
Like Earth, Mars has frozen polar caps, but unlike Earth, these caps are made of carbon dioxide ice as well as water ice.
During the southern hemisphere’s summer, much of the ice cap sublimates, a process in which the ice turns straight back into gas, leaving behind what is known as the residual polar cap.
The problem is that while the winter cap is symmetrical about the South Pole, the residual cap is offset by some three to four degrees.
Paris - As investors began having second thoughts, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) on Tuesday praised the United States' plan to rescue its badly ailing financial industry.
Paris - As expected, the lower house of the French parliament, the National Assembly, on Monday voted to prolong the presence of the country's troops in Afghanistan.
Paris- France will deploy aditional military equipment to Afghanistan as well as about 100 more soldiers to service it, Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Monday ahead of a parliamentary debate of the country's presence in the country.
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