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Mars: Occurrence of liquid water

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

Andrew P. Ingersoll*
Affiliation:
Division of Geological Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, Calif., U.S.A.

Abstract

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In the absence of juvenile liquid water, condensation and subsequent melting of ice are the only means of producing liquid water on the Martian surface. However, the evaporation rate is so high that the available heat sources cannot melt ice on Mars. Melting might occur only in concentrated solutions of strongly deliquescent salts.

Type
Part II: Mars
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1971 

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