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Of all the freshwater on Earth, 99 percent is stored in ice sheets, the large frozen masses that form over land. As...
ARCSIX is the Arctic Radiation Cloud Aerosol Surface Interaction Experiment. The overarching goal of ARCSIX is to...
A new NASA-funded study has identified which glaciers in West Greenland are most susceptible to thinning in the...
Tiny particles suspended in the air, known as aerosols, can darken snow and ice causing it to absorb more of the...
Cracks form in the impact melt sheet on the floor of Necho Crater in this image taken by NASA Lunar Reconnaissance...
This doublet crater looks like a melting snowman tipped on his side.Warmth is in the air, as the southern hemisphere...
Almost all of Greenland continued to lose mass in May 2019 as the ice sheet continues to melt....
This image of a well-preserved unnamed elliptical crater in Terra Sabaea, is illustrative of the complexity of...
Join NASA ice experts as we discuss important science about Earth's icy regions, and how it can impact us here in...
This oblique view from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a small part of the near-rim ejecta from Tooting...
NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter shows boulders and impact melt line the floor of the 85-km crater Tycho, a...
This layered region is between Aonia Planum and the south pole. The edges of the top layer have a moothed appearance...
The frequent coverage provided by NASA SeaWinds instrument on the QuikScat satellite in 1999 provided unprecedented...
These drawings depict explanations for the source of intense heat that has been measured coming from Enceladus south...
ARCSIX is the Arctic Radiation Cloud Aerosol Surface Interaction Experiment. The overarching goal of ARCSIX is to...
Diverse textures on the floor of Saha E which could be the result of impact melt coating boulders and other deposits...
Elorza Crater is a complex crater located north of Coprates Chasma. This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter...
This sequence of three images in northern Colorado, taken by NASA Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar AIRSAR in 2002,...
This is a view from NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter of a very young impact crater in Balmer basin. The dark...
This photo, taken onboard the Chilean Navy P3 aircraft, shows the ice front of Venable Ice Shelf, West Antarctica,...
A subset of NAC Image M112162602L showing landslides bottom covering impact melt on the floor top of a fresh...
Situated high in Mercury southern hemisphere, NASA MESSENGER sees Han Kan, a 50-km-diameter impact crater with a...
Warming water and melting land ice have raised global mean sea level 4.5 centimeters 1.7 inches from 1993 to 2008....
This image from NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows frosted gullies on a south-facing slope within a crater. At...