Buried glaciers have been spotted on Mars, offering new hints about how much water may be accessible on the Red Planet and where it is located, researchers said Thursday.
Although ice has long been known to exist on Mars, a better understanding of its depth and location could be vital to future human explorers, said the report in the US journal Science.
[...] Scientists have not determined how these particular scarps initially form. However, once the buried ice becomes exposed to Mars' atmosphere, a scarp likely grows wider and taller as it "retreats," due to sublimation of the ice directly from solid form into water vapor. At some of them, the exposed deposit of water ice is more than 100 yards, or meter[sic], thick. Examination of some of the scarps with MRO's Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) confirmed that the bright material is frozen water. A check of the surface temperature using Odyssey's Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) camera helped researchers determine they're not seeing just thin frost covering the ground.
(Score: 2) by arslan on Friday January 12 2018, @06:18AM (1 child)
Very heavy shoes? I hear Kanye's adidas yeezys has all the weight of his ego in it... we should send those folks that buy em there to test out my theory...
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday January 12 2018, @09:23AM
I am not quite sure what you suggest, a heavier shoe will fall in Mars gravity as fast as a feather. I'll just have more inertia, though, but I fail to see how will this help with the problem. Care to explain?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford