Youthful Martian Northern Ice Cap

There are many signs of youth in the solar system, relative compared to what believers in cosmic evolution expect. Mercury is cooling, the rings of Saturn are young, Jupiter's moon Ganymede looks young, and more places in our solar system do not cooperate with secular expectations.

Ages are based on scientists using standard models and assumptions that are flawed. Instead of questioning their methods and even their own worldview, they are constantly surprised. It is no surprise that the northern ice cap on Mars is also surprising to them.

Martian north polar cap in summer, NASA / JPL / MSSS (usage does not imply endorsement of site contents)

Ice sheets grow and also get heavier. Then the weight pushes downward into the earth until things settle down. The same kind of thing is happening on Mars, where the ice does not seem to be growing, but still sinking at a calculated (not measured), rate. Its age is far younger than would be expected by secular models.

A team of German planetary scientists has concluded that a three-kilometer-thick northern polar ice cap on Mars has a “surprisingly young” age of between 2 and 12 million years. This age is much younger than uniformitarian age estimates for any other large feature on the red planet and is consistent with other clues suggesting that Mars is relatively young, not billions of years old.

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