Recent gullies on Mars and the source of liquid water

By M. Mellon, Roger J. Phillips. 2001

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science

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Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) (2007, background): “Variations in axial obliquity and orbital eccentricity are thought to influence the climates of both Earth and Mars, but are of greater amplitude in the Martian case [Ward, 1974; W. R. Ward, 1979; Bills, 1990; Touma and Wisdom, 1993; Mellon and Phillips, 2001].”
Water and Brines on Mars: Current Evidence and Implications for MSL (2013, background): “These orbital variations can cause freeze/thaw cycles in aquifers, eventually generating pressures high enough to fracture ice-cemented ground and allow water to escape to the surface (Mellon and Phillips 2001).”
Context Camera Investigation on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2007, background): “Among hypotheses that favor liquid water are those centered on groundwater [Malin and Edgett, 2000b; Mellon and Phillips, 2001; Gilmore and Phillips, 2002; Heldmann and Mellon, 2004], melting ground ice [Costard et al., 2001], and melting surface ice or snowpack [Lee et al., 2001; Christensen,…”
Formation of Martian Gullies by the Action of Liquid Water Flowing Under Current Martian Environmental Conditions (2005, background): “Previous researchers proposed numerous mechanisms to supply water (andotherfluids)toformthegullies[MalinandEdgett,2000; Gaidos, 2001; Mellon and Phillips, 2001; Musselwhite et al., 2001;BridgesandHecht,2002;Costardetal.,2002;Gilmore and Phillips, 2002; Knauth and Burt, 2002; Heldmann and Mellon, 2”
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) during MRO’s Primary Science Phase (PSP) (2010, background): “This might support the shallow groundwater model for the origin of gullies (Mellon and Phillips, 2001).”
Geologic Constraints on Early Mars Climate (2018, background): “To the contrary, groundwater discharge may continue – thanks to salinity and heat advection – even when the surface is cold and otherwise dry (Andersen 2002, Grasby et al. 2014, Scheidegger & Bense 2014, Ward & Pollard 2018, Mellon & Phillips 2001).”
Metastability of liquid water on Mars (2001, background): “Reflected light from nearby surfaces, which could enhance the total insolation on slopes (Mellon and Phillips 2001), was not considered.”
Methane clathrate hydrates as a potential source for martian atmospheric methane (2007, methodology): “The graph for water and geothermal profiles is reprinted from Mellon and Phillips (2001), the data for the methane clathrate stability curve are determined using the program CSMHYD (Sloan, 1998).”
Detection of methane in the martian atmosphere: evidence for life? (2004, background): “The mantle outgassing of CH 4 is 4000 cm −2 s −1 on the Earth and smaller by an order of magnitude on Mars.”
Viscous flow features on the surface of Mars: Observations from high‐resolution Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) images (2003, background): “As a second constraint, annual mean surface temperatures near 220 K for the latitudes considered here only occur at low obliquities, which correspond to periods when near-surface ground ice is unstable at midlatitudes [Mellon and Phillips, 2001; Mellon and Jakosky, 1995] and accumulation of ice for ”