ice cap
noun
1
: a cover of perennial ice and snow
specifically
: a glacier forming on an extensive area of relatively level land and flowing outward from its center
2
: an ice bag shaped to the head
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Through telescopes, ever improving technologically, Mars’s surface revealed itself to have exotic stretches of desolate, red-ocher terrain and more familiar-looking polar ice caps.
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David Kamp, Air Mail, 23 Aug. 2025
Braided glacial rivers cut through valleys, and massive ice caps glint in the distance.
—David Nikel, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
Positing that the entire planet is underwater is arguably an acceptable use of dramatic licence — the US Geological Survey estimates that, if all the glaciers and ice caps melted, sea levels would rise by around 70 meters — but tens of millions of years of evolution condensed into a few centuries?
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 29 July 2025
The ice cap is losing 300,000 times that area every year.
—Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
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David Kamp, Air Mail, 23 Aug. 2025
Braided glacial rivers cut through valleys, and massive ice caps glint in the distance.
—David Nikel, Forbes.com, 16 Aug. 2025
Positing that the entire planet is underwater is arguably an acceptable use of dramatic licence — the US Geological Survey estimates that, if all the glaciers and ice caps melted, sea levels would rise by around 70 meters — but tens of millions of years of evolution condensed into a few centuries?
—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 29 July 2025
The ice cap is losing 300,000 times that area every year.
—Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
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“Ice cap.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20cap. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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