Variability of the south polar cap of Mars in Mars years 28 and 29

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Jul 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010icar..208...82j&link_type=abstract

Icarus, Volume 208, Issue 1, p. 82-85.

Computer Science

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We have used Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter data from 2007 and 2009 to compare summer behaviors of the seasonal and residual south polar caps of Mars in those two years. We find that the planet-encircling dust storm that occurred in the first of the two Mars years enhanced the loss of seasonal CO2 deposits relative to the second year but did not have a large effect on the continuing erosion of the pits and mesas within the residual cap materials. This suggests that the increase of bright frost in some regions of the residual cap observed between Mariner 9 and Viking can be accommodated within observed martian weather variability and does not require unknown processes or climate change.

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