North polar cap of Mars: Polar layered deposit characterization and identification of a fundamental climate signal

By S. Milkovich, James W. Head III. 2005

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. Francois Forget
2. Michael D. Smith
3. Ehouarn Millour
4. James W. Head III
5. Michael J. Wolff
6. Jean-Baptiste Madeleine
7. S. Byrne
8. R. Wordsworth

In Atmospheric Science

1. Francois Forget
2. S. Byrne
3. R. Haberle
4. M. Carr
5. Ehouarn Millour
6. Michael J. Wolff
7. R. Clancy
8. Jean-Baptiste Madeleine

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• Amazonian northern mid-latitude glaciation on Mars: A proposed climate scenario (2009, background): “, 2007), explaining why the interpretation of the polar layered deposit frequency signals is so difficult (Laskar et al., 2002; Milkovich and Head, 2005; Levrard et al., 2007).”
• Subsurface structure of Planum Boreum from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Shallow Radar soundings (2009, background): “The lower estimates are generally based on climate modeling studies (Laskar et al., 2002; Milkovich and Head, 2005; Levrard et al., 2007), whereas the higher estimates are constrained by sparse but relatively large craters that may represent impacts in some of the lower sequences of the NPLD and by ”
• The Polar Deposits of Mars (2009, background): “…surface of Planum Boreum and is ∼500 m thick, which means that almost all of the troughs in the interior of Planum Boreum (such as that shown in Figure 3a) expose only layers from this packet as earlier inferred by stratigraphic correlations (Milkovich & Head 2005, Fishbaugh & Hvidberg 2006).”
• Context Camera Investigation on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2007, background): “…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 layered materials [Byrne and Murray, 2002; Edgett et al., 2003b; Fishbaugh and Head, 2005; Milkovich and Head, 2005].”
• Geologic history of Mars (2010, background): “While attempts have been made to correlate specific layers with recent obliquity variations (Milkovich and Head, 2005), the correlations will remain uncertain until samples are available for dating.”