The composition of the Martian polar caps

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Sep 1977

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1977geokh.....1283a&link_type=abstract

Geokhimiia, Sept. 1977, p. 1283-1287. In Russian.

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Mars (Planet), Planetary Composition, Polar Caps, Annual Variations, Carbon Dioxide, Crystallization, Ice, Phase Diagrams, Water

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The probable pattern of crystallization and sublimation of matter in the seasonal Martian polar caps is studied on the basis of an analysis of the phase diagram of the H2O-CO2 system. It is shown that in the case of a quasi-equilibrium process, each of the fully developed polar caps (during winter, in the corresponding hemisphere) should exhibit a concentric zonal structure, consisting of an edge region of H2O ice, followed by a region of CO2, 6H2O clathrate compound, and regions of stable coexistence of H2O and CO2 ice, in the central portion of the cap.

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