Glacial progress
Obviously the Ice Warriors will be using this to cover their advance south. The Utopia Planitia colony's days are numbered.
New analysis of Mars' poles suggest they get bigger when the red planet's not experiencing an ice age. A new paper, An ice age recorded in the polar deposits of Mars, reaches that conclusion after analysing data from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's Shallow Subsurface Radar (SHARAD). As NASA explains, during Martian ice ages …
"During temperate periods, such as the current epoch..." says the article.
No sir! we are still semi-frigid, not by a long way out of the last ice age. When the dinosaurs basked in the sunshine by British lakes and rivers, they did not have to worry about frosty winters. The plant(*) eaters among them had a choice of tropical delicacies.
(*)Plant as in English. In Welsh, plant means child.