Patterns In Mars Crater Floors Give Picture Of Drying Lakes

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 10:21 in Earth & Climate

Networks of giant polygonal troughs etched across crater basins on Mars have been identified as desiccation cracks caused by evaporating lakes, providing further evidence of a warmer, wetter martian past.

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