The Network showed unique photographs of the “winter of Mars”

Scientists have shown how Mars is changing climatic conditions with the arrival of winter.

In the picture from a NASA satellite Mars Global Surveyor can see the process of melting of carbon dioxide caps of the red planet.

For the territory South polar region of Mars is typical of major region of carbon dioxide, dust and frozen water, these caps are so huge that visible with the aid of telescopic equipment from the Ground. These formations are highly susceptible to seasonal changes in winter on the red planet, they grow, and in summer – on the contrary “compressed”.

The national average in the Mars temperature stay at a level of -70 degrees Celsius. The largest carbon dioxide cap is on the Martian North pole, in winter, its size reaches 1500 km. it Should be noted that this cap does not melt completely even with the arrival of summer warming, the average size of the “residual cap” is not less than 1,100 km, the volume of ice is equivalent to 1.2 million cubic meters In the southern part of the planet, located an identical hat, only much smaller in size, its parameters do not exceed 400 km.

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