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Tag Archives: salts
ExoMars: Images of InSight lander and more
Curious surface features, water-formed minerals, 3D stereo views, and even a sighting of the InSight lander showcase the impressive range of imaging capabilities of the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. The ESA-Roscosmos Trace Gas Orbiter, or TGO, launched three years ago … Continue reading
Posted in Reports
Tagged CaSSIS, chlorides, Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System, Elysium Planitia, ESA, European Space Agency, ExoMars, InSight, Interior Exploration Using Seismic Investigations Geodesy and Heat Transport, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, JPL, NASA, Roscosmos, salts, TGO, Trace Gas Orbiter
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Lake under south polar ice cap requires local heat source
Thermal modeling suggests that active magmatism in the past few hundred thousand years could account for the presence of a large lake previously hypothesized beneath the Red Planet’s southern ice cap. Liquid water appears to be a fundamental requirement for … Continue reading
Posted in Reports
Tagged heat flow, magmatism, salts, south polar ice cap, south polar region, subglacial lakes, water
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HiRISE: Looking at martian salts and clays
This 3D perspective view is a composite of both HiRISE and data from CRISM, another instrument onboard MRO. This view covers a small patch of ancient Martian real estate in Terra Sirenum. CRISM collects spectral data that can be used … Continue reading
Posted in Reports
Tagged clay minerals, clays, Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, CRISM, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiRISE, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, phyllosilicates, salts, Terra Sirenum, University of Arizona
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Do salts draw water from atmosphere for RSLs?
Puzzles persist about possible water at seasonally dark streaks on Martian slopes, according to a new study of thousands of such features in the Red Planet’s largest canyon system. The study published today [in the Journal of Gephysical Research] investigated … Continue reading
Posted in Reports
Tagged Coprates Chasma, Melas Chasma, recurring slope lineae, RSL, salts, Valles Marineris
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HiRISE: Possible chloride salts in Icaria Planum
Possible chloride salts in Icaria Planum. Beautiful Mars series.
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Tagged Beautiful Mars, chlorides, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiRISE, Icaria Planum, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, salts, University of Arizona
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Salt flat: a last vestige of Mars surface water?
Mars turned cold and dry long ago, but researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered evidence of an ancient lake that likely represents some of the last potentially habitable surface water ever to exist on the Red Planet. … Continue reading
Mars salts must touch ice to make liquid water
In chambers that mimic Mars’ conditions, researchers have shown how small amounts of liquid water could form on the planet despite its below-freezing temperatures. Mars is one of the very few places in the solar system where scientists have seen … Continue reading