Earth's Frozen Poles
NASA
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- Melting sea ice could raise sea level by several meters.
- Ice sheets are made of snow that builds up and gets compressed into ice, which then flows downhill toward the coast. What controls the mass of the Greenland and Antarctica ice sheets?
- Sea ice is frozen sea water.
- Ice cap melting from which land mass(es) can affect Earth's spin?
- "Albedo" is a measure of an object's "brightness" — i.e., how much of the sunlight that hits the surface is reflected away. Which has a higher albedo?
