Mars south polar spring and summer behavior observed by TES: Seasonal cap evolution controlled by frost grain size

By Hugh H. Kieffer, T. Titus, K. Mullins, P. Christensen. 2000

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Subfields: Aerospace Engineering, Astronomy and Astrophysics

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In Aerospace Engineering

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Citations in the corpus

• Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) (2007, background): “Is this the reason for the cryptic terrain [e.g., Titus et al., 2001; Kieffer et al., 2000]?”
• The Mars Odyssey Gamma-Ray Spectrometer Instrument Suite (2004, background): “These caps are composed of CO2 condensed from the atmosphere, and contain little H2O (Kieffer et al., 2000).”
• Miniature thermal emission spectrometer for the Mars Exploration Rover (2002, background): “Mars Global Surveyor was launched in 1996, and the MGS TES has been returning excellent data since the spacecraft arrived at Mars in September, 1997 [Christensen et al., 2001a, 2001b; Bandfield et al., 2000; Bandfield, 2002; Smith et al., 2001a, 2001b; Kieffer et al., 2000; Kieffer and Titus, 2001].”
• Context Camera Investigation on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2007, background): “…[Titus et al., 2003; Bibring et al., 2003], dynamic and unexpected patterns on dunes and regolith surfaces in the defrosting seasonal ice caps [Kieffer et al., 2000; Malin and Edgett, 2001; Kieffer, 2003], and details regarding the stratigraphy and geomorphic evolution of the north polar…”
• Mars high resolution gravity fields from MRO, Mars seasonal gravity, and other dynamical parameters (2011, methodology): “Constraints on the martian icecap seasonal histories are provided by visual imaging (e.g. Piqueux and Christensen, 2008), thermal imaging (TES, Kieffer et al., 2000; Kieffer and Titus, 2001), the high energy neutron detection (HEND, Litvak et al., 2004, 2006) and Neutron Spectrometer (NS, Prettyman…”
• The Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) for the Mars 2001 Odyssey Mission (2004, background): “…such as the origin and seasonal behavior of unusual ‘Cryptic’ regions (Kieffer et al., 2000), the complex physical nature of the polar ices (Kieffer et al., 2000; Titus et al., 2001), the incorporation of dust and water ice into the seasonal polar caps, the influence of suspended…”
• Investigation of the nature and stability of the Martian seasonal water cycle with a general circulation model (2002, methodology): “The thermal and albedo behavior of CO2 ices comprising the polar caps is not well understood [Kieffer et al., 2000], with much variability exhibited, including an indication that albedo and insolation are coupled [Kieffer and Zent, 1992].”
• Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) (2007, background): “[247] The final campaign is ‘‘polar monitoring,’’ which continues throughout the Primary Science Phase, A variety of representative areas of the permanent and seasonal cap [Kieffer et al., 2000; Kieffer and Titus, 2001; Langevin et al., 2005b] are monitored at the Ls ranges during which transitions ”
• Observations of the south seasonal cap of Mars during recession in 2004–2006 by the OMEGA visible/near‐infrared imaging spectrometer on board Mars Express (2007, methodology): “…part of the seasonal cycle, maps of the southern polar region in the visible were obtained by Mariner 9, Viking and MGS [James et al., 1979, 2001; Kieffer et al., 2000; Benson and James, 2005] over a wide range of Martian years (in particular 1999, 2001 and 2003 with MGS), which provide an…”
• Sublimation of Mars's southern seasonal CO2 ice cap and the formation of spiders (2003, background): “An extreme example is the observed evolution of the ‘‘cryptic’’ region, primarily in the southern hemisphere [Kieffer et al., 2000] but also recently recognized in the north [Kieffer and Titus, 2001].”