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Does Venus have polar ice caps?

Updated: 8/11/2023
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As seen through a modestly good telescope, the poles show white caps that grow and shrink with the seasons. They are not solid caps of ice, metres or even kilometres thick, such as we have on Earth, but just a thin frost of carbon dioxide crystals ("dry ice") and water crystals (snow or hoar frost) mainly on the ground surface. There is more material underground, but not very much and not visible from off the planet.

If that is what you are willing to call a planetary ice cap, then the answer is yes.

If not, then bad luck! No!

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14y ago

no. too much greenhouse effect and too many greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. it is too hot for water to freeze and form a polar ice cap

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12y ago

It has a North pole and a South pole, but no "ice" caps.

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No. Saturn does not have a surface on which ice caps could form.

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yes..we have lotsnof them

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Yes it does have icy rings

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yes

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