Thermokarst and Related Landforms in Western Utopia Planitia, Mars: Implications for Near-Surface Excess Ice

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Mar 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006lpi....37.1414b&link_type=abstract

37th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, March 13-17, 2006, League City, Texas, abstract no.1414

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We have identified polygon pits in western Utopia Planitia suggestive of
terrestrial thermokarst landforms. We argue that the polygon pits are
the result of periglacial processes and imply the presence of excess
near-surface ice on Mars.

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