Physics
Scientific paper
Jun 1989
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1989icar...79..229s&link_type=abstract
Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 79, June 1989, p. 229-288. Research supported by NASA.
Physics
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Mars Surface, Planetary Composition, Water, Ablation, Antarctic Regions, Deposits, Image Analysis, Lake Ice, Lakes, Planetary Geology, Regolith, Valleys, Mars, Water, Surface, Features, Morphology, Deposition, Formation, Ice, Origin, Climate, Sediments, Thermodynamics, Subsurface, Depth, Regolith, Creep, Flow, Latitude, Comminution, Maps, Rheology, Viscosity, Craters, Sedimentation, Photographs, Valleys, Diagrams, Comparisons, Analogs, Distribution, Spectroscopy, Gamma Ray Methods
Scientific paper
Taking the heat-transport physics of ice-covered lakes in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica as a model, it is presently suggested that liquid water lakes could have persisted for significant periods under protective ice covers in the Valles Marineris depressions of Mars. Calculations of ground ice thermodynamic stability in a Martian setting indicate that they may exist close to the surface at high latitudes, but are able to persist near the equator only at substantial depths. Such Martian landforms as terrain-softening are attributable to the creep of the Martian regolith under the influence of ground-ice deformation; FEM modeling of the flow process implies terrain-softening to be a near-surface phenomenon.
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