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You want your marshmallows to be as small as possible to make sure they get properly melted and toasted and everyone gets some of those sugary pillows in their serving.

Although modern Mars is dry, its long-term climate has swung between warmer and colder phases, with cycles of freezing and melting driven mainly by changes in the planet's axial tilt.

Beneath Greenland, this deep heat source increases the temperature at the bottom of the thick ice sheet, influencing how the ice flows and melts today.

Of more concern to the authorities is the fate of the jewelry: From the start, fears were voiced that the diamonds could be recut, the precious metal melted down and the evidence made to vanish.

Local residents had complained that exploration work had contaminated the water supply, threatened tourism and risked hastening the melting of glaciers, Kyrgyz media reported earlier this year.