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What do you think will happen to the salt...

Over millions and billions of years of adding fresh ice on the top of the stack, and just occasionally having a mild thaw - yes, it WILL melt, but it will then run away downhill, transporting the salt AWAY from the icecaps.

So, o0ver geologic time, the poles will tend to become salt-deficient, and melting will become improbable.

That's the way things work.

Now, if Phoenix lands and finds a HIGH salt concentration, then of course I'll eat my words, but every expectation is that the poles are a store of relatively CLEAN ice.

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