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by shaneh66
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)
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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...