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One of the “weirdest and least understood” areas of Mars, the enormous Hellas Impact Basin contains strange flowing landforms that bespeak of some specialized and large-scale geologic process having taken place. 
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Weird sounds of frozen sea.Arcadia, Odessa video courtesy http://www.youtube.com/user/Dron008?feature=watch...
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For much of the last 250 million years the Earth has been warmer than today. Around 50 million years ago during the early Cenozoic era, the climate began to cool. A key threshold was crossed 35 million years ago and the Antarctic ice sheet began to grow – the first continental scale ice sheet in 300 million years that ultimately led to the establishment of our modern icehouse climate system. Using a combination of laboratory measurements and computer modelling to unravel the sequence of events, this project aims to understand what caused this fundamental transition of Earth’s climate from a warm “greenhouse” to relatively frigid “icehouse”.
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Outside its capital Ulan Bator, Mongolia is launching the world's largest ice-making experiment in hopes of combating global warming and the urban heat island effect. "The project aims to artificially create 'naleds'—ultra-thick slabs of ice that occur naturally in far northern climes when rivers or springs push through cracks in the surface to seep outwards during the day and then add an extra layer of ice during the night." If successful, the technique could be used in other northern cities.
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In October 2011, airborne Nasa researchers made the first-ever detailed 3D measurements of a new iceberg 'being born'. The Icebridge team has now used them to 'simulate' flying through the crack.
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An ice core from the Antarctic has given an NSF-funded research team a glimpse into the very distant past. The continuous core sample provides details on how the Earth's climate and atmosphere changed long ago, and gives clues about variations in ice levels. The oldest ice from the bottom of the core may be up to 100,000 years old.
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A bizarre underwater "icicle of death" has been filmed by a BBC crew. With timelapse cameras, specialists recorded salt water being excluded from the sea ice and sinking.
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A giant dune-spanning, solar-powered leaf could turn even the most parched desert outpost into a fertile oasis of ice. The concept (and the above image) certainly seems like a scene Salvador Dali would have painted, however, this is no surrealist figment of the imagination. It's an actual project called SunGlacier that Dutch artist, Ap Verheggen, has hatched with Cofely Refrigeration to make the impossible possible.
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