Impacts, Salts, and Ice on Mars: How Brine Flow in Young Gullies and Elsewhere Could be Related to Impact Cratering

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Mar 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007lpi....38.2054b&link_type=abstract

38th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, (Lunar and Planetary Science XXXVIII), held March 12-16, 2007 in League City, Texas

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If impact cratering has excavated chloride salts from beneath a layer of
ground ice, and tossed them onto the surface, eutectic melting involving
slow frost condensation could explain the formation of recent gullies.
Similar phenomena on a cold early Mars

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