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Earth’s ice caps are temporary and rare, study suggests


- Earth has two ice caps, the floating pack ice in the Arctic Ocean at the North Pole and the ice sheet covering Antarctica at the South Pole. - How and why did the ice caps form? A new study suggests that Earth’s ice caps are not permanent.

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