Recent ice ages on Mars

By James W. Head III, J. F. Mustard, M. Kreslavsky, Ralph E. Milliken, David Gray Marchant. Nature, 2003

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Mineralogical constraints on the high-silica martian surface component observed by TES (2005, background): “ Head et al. (2003) proposed that Mars is currently coming out an ice age and it is possible that during recent epochs on Mars, surface and near surface ice was more extensive.”
Tropical mountain glaciers on Mars: Altitude-dependence of ice accumulation, accumulation conditions, formation times, glacier dynamics, and implications for planetary spin-axis/orbital history (2007, background): “The recognition of recent ice ages on Mars ( Head et al., 2003 ), combined with (1) a more in-depth understanding of the spin-axis/orbital parameter driving forces in”
SHARAD detection and characterization of subsurface water ice deposits in Utopia Planitia, Mars (2016, background): “High-obliquity periods conducive to this process are predicted to last for durations on the order of 40 kyr [Head et al., 2003], which is a sufficient time period to form a deposit 80–170 m thick.”
Radar evidence for ice in lobate debris aprons in the mid‐northern latitudes of Mars (2009, methodology): “We present new evidence from the Shallow Radar (SHARAD) sounding experiment on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) [Seu et al., 2007] that LDAs in the Deuteronilus Mensae region of the mid-northern latitudes consist mostly of ice.”
The Polar Deposits of Mars (2009, background): “On the basis of these observational and theoretical results, Head et al. (2003) postulated that Mars may recently have undergone an “ice age,” during which water ice was transported from the polar deposits to latitudes potentially as low as 30◦.”
Amazonian northern mid-latitude glaciation on Mars: A proposed climate scenario (2009, background): “Ages obtained through crater size-frequency analyses span the period from less than 10 Myr for the latitude-dependent mantle (Head et al., 2003) to 10–200 Myr for the tropical mountain glaciers (Shean et al., 2005).”
Geologic history of Mars (2010, background): “…simple vapor diffusion of ice into regolith pore spaces, requiring either huge amounts of secondary ice emplacement by diffusion (Mellon et al., 2008), or primary deposition of snow and ice and formation of surface sublimation lags during spin-axis/orbital climate variations (Head et al., 2003b).”
Ejection of Martian meteorites (2005, background): “As the climate on Mars, and possibly the atmospheric pressure, have not been constant in the last 20 Ma (Ward 1974; Barker 2001; Mustard et al. 2001; Laskar et al. 2002; Head et al. 2003), we have evaluated a possible influence of climatic variations on the production rate of Martian meteorites.”
North polar cap of Mars: Polar layered deposit characterization and identification of a fundamental climate signal (2005, neutral): “Head et al. [2003] have recently combined these studies with geological observations and interpreted the recent climate history of Mars.”
Context Camera Investigation on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2007, background): “Much of the work on these features has focused on the confusing mix of evidence for catastrophic flood by water, flow of extremely fluid lavas, and perhaps mudflows, in the region [Burr et al., 2002a, 2002b, 2004; Berman and Hartmann, 2002; Head et al., 2003a; Plescia, 2003].”
Thermal contraction crack polygons on Mars: Classification, distribution, and climate implications from HiRISE observations (2009, background): “Levy et al. [2009a] have interpreted surfaces in Utopia Planitia with mixed center polygons overlying concentric crater fill deposits to be local occurrences of the Martian latitude-dependent mantle [Head et al., 2003].”
Widespread excess ice in Arcadia Planitia, Mars (2015, background): “Throughout the last 3 Gyr of Mars’ history, these orbital variations dictate where ice is stable—with ice locked up at the poles during low obliquities and mobilized to lower latitudes during higher obliquities [Head et al., 2003].”