Search found 1 match
- Mon Sep 26, 2011 11:56 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Dry Ice Pits on Mars (2011 Sep 26)
- Replies: 60
- Views: 5718
Re: APOD: Dry Ice Pits on Mars (2011 Sep 26)
I'm curious about the following sentence: "Around the South Pole of Mars, toward the end of every Martian summer, the warm weather causes a section of the vast carbon-dioxide ice cap to evaporate". Is it a scientific convention to refer to the season of an entire planet in terms of only it...