Physics – Geophysics
Scientific paper
Oct 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999georl..26.3049m&link_type=abstract
Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 26, Issue 19, p. 3049-3052
Physics
Geophysics
59
Planetology: Solar System Objects: Mars, Planetology: Solar System Objects: Comparative Planetology, Marine Geology And Geophysics: Micropaleontology
Scientific paper
Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera images that were targeted specifically to observe locations where published accounts argue for the presence of landforms created by the interaction of a large body of water with Martian topography fail to reveal any evidence to support the hypothesis that the northern lowlands were once the site of oceans or seas. Given the difficulty of identifying ancient coastlines on Earth from orbital and aerial photography in the absence of field work, this result does not preclude the possibility that Mars once had large standing bodies of water on its surface, but calls into question shorelines previously proposed.
Edgett Kenneth Scott
Malin Michael C.
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