Transient liquid water and water activity at Gale crater on Mars
By F. Martín-Torres, M. Zorzano, P. Valentín-Serrano, A. Harri, M. Genzer, O. Kemppinen, E. Rívera-Valentin, I. Jun, J. Wray, Morten Bo Madsen and 15 more. 2015
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Liquid water on equatorial Mars is inconsistent with large-scale climatic conditions. Humidity and temperature measurements by the Curiosity rover support the formation of subsurface liquid brines by hydration of perchlorates during the night.
Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Citations in the corpus
- The Modern Near-Surface Martian Climate: A Review of In-situ Meteorological Data from Viking to Curiosity (2017, background): “…and the temperature is above the salts’ eutectic value (Clark 1978; Rennó et al. 2009; Davila et al. 2010; Gough et al. 2011; Nuding et al. 2015; Martín-Torres et al. 2015; Nikolakakos and Whiteway 2015), and its formation by salts melting water ice when the temperature exceeds the eutectic…”
- Heterogeneous distribution of H2O in the Martian interior: Implications for the abundance of H2O in depleted and enriched mantle sources (2016, background): “…(Newsom 1980; Newsom et al. 1996; Osinski et al. 2001; Schwenzer and Kring 2009), and observations of surface features such as recurring slope linea linked to seasonal brine flows and diurnal changes in salt hydration states within Martian soil (McEwen et al. 2011; Martin-Torres et al. 2015).”