How much ice needed to create Martian land formations?
Wednesday, December 30, 2009 - 20:21
in Astronomy & Space
Some land formations on Mars suggest the presence of water ice. These features could have been created by viscous creep of ice below the surface in Martian permafrost. To determine how much ice would be needed to form the observed topography on Mars, researchers conducted laboratory experiments to simulate the frozen Martian sand.