Ice cap at the North pole of the planet began to melt.
Geophysicists from the United States say that on the red planet global warming has begun. According to experts, Mars was in the phase of the ice age, but now began to come out of it.
According to geophysicists, polar cap at the North pole of the planet began to dwindle. Despite its impressive height of 200-300 meters, it could be completely gone until the next ice age.
While the last glacial period, according to calculations, the world ended about 370 thousand years ago.
In the study of Geophysics have noted that Mars, like Earth, is peculiar to the phase of the glacial period. However, unlike the blue planet, on the red they are much more pronounced that it provoked a large change in the tilt of its axis of rotation of Mars to the plane of its orbit.
Scientists have calculated that several million years ago the angle of rotation of Mars varies by 60 degrees, while for Earth the change is only two degrees.
This, in turn, affect the admission of sunlight to the planet, and the nature of its heating.
