Acid Fog On Mars
Monday, November 9, 2015 - 08:10
in Astronomy & Space
Mars doesn't have much in the way of Earth-like weather, it does evidently share one kind of weird meteorology: acid fog. Astronomer Shoshanna Cole of Ithaca College gathered data from instruments on the 2003 Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and suggests acidic vapors may have eaten at the rocks in a 100-acre area on Husband Hill in the Columbia Hills of Gusev Crater on Mars. The work focused on the 'Watchtower Class' outcrops on Cumberland Ridge and the Husband Hill summit. read more