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Where exactly are those eight steep slopes on Mars revealing structures of buried ice?
Credit:NASA/JPL-Caltech/UA/USGS
The image above is from Phys.org's article Steep slopes on Mars reveal structure of buried ice that I came upon by the link in a comment from @Mark Adler after his ...
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Does the polygonal pattern on the floor of this "crater" on Mars mean that there's water ice below its surface?
This presentation of the Program of the Second MSL Landing Site Workshop shows an image of a "crater" near the equator that is 2.4 km wide and 750 meters deep !
On the Mars Image explorer you can ...
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What kinds of instruments do you need to detect whether liquid water/ice is on a planet?
Somewhat of a two-part question. Firstly I'm interested to know if it is expected that a planet/asteroid has water/ice on it, what kinds of scientific instruments you need to identify the presence and ...
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Where on Mars did the largest river once flow?
It is generally accepted that once there was running water on the surface of Mars.
Can it be determined from remote sensing data from space where the biggest, largest and longest ones were?
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Mars drill depth to discover Life
Curiosity has shown that Mars used to have persistent liquid water on the surface. (~3+ billion years ago.)
IF life was around at that time, at what depth would we expect to find it?
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