Plaut et al: South pole has enough water to cover planet

samy · 2007-03-16 14:34:21

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news … water.html

RickSmith · 2007-03-23 02:28:45

Hi Samy,
This report from NASA says basically the same thing.

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/ … 70315.html

Warm regards, Rick.

cIclops · 2007-09-25 22:59:14

MIT observations give precise estimate of Mars surface ice

September 21, 2007
An MIT-led team of planetary scientists has found that the southern pole of Mars contains the largest deposit of frozen water in the inner solar system, outside of Earth.
The new results show that water, not carbon dioxide, is the predominant frozen liquid found in the southern polar region of Mars, said Maria Zuber, MIT professor of geophysics.
Zuber said scientists have suspected that the southern polar cap of Mars is comprised of a thin veneer of carbon dioxide that rests atop a layer of dust and ice. However, scientists have also observed a surrounding area much larger than the polar cap that is dark and smooth, and it was uncertain whether that region was also composed of dust or ice--or both.
"What we found is that water ice is the dominant constituent beneath a thin dust veneer," said Zuber, lead author of a paper on the work appearing in the Sept. 21 issue of Science.

Terraformer · 2007-10-14 12:49:56

I thought it was Ceres that had the most water ice in the solar system.

cIclops · 2007-10-16 16:23:40

Ceres may well do, Mars gets the prize for the "inner solar system, outside of Earth" - it's a lot of water in either case!

Terraformer · 2007-10-27 04:27:05

It's a debatable point whether the Mars-Jupiter asteroid belt is in the inner or outer solar system.

DonaldSpace · 2008-02-27 13:52:30

What about the North of Mars ? Why does the South hold all the trapped water ?

samy · 2008-03-11 21:56:01

It fell to the bottom.

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