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Science 20 January 1967:
Vol. 155. no. 3760, pp. 319 - 322
DOI: 10.1126/science.155.3760.319
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Frost Phenomena on Mars

Duwayne M. Anderson 1, Edward S. Gaffney 1, and Philip F. Low 1

1 U.S. Army Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, Hanover, New Hampshire

The hypothesis that the Martian wave of darkening might be a frostheaving phenomenon has been examined. Consideration of the water-vapor sorption characteristics of a silicate mineral surface at temperatures below freezing leads to the conclusion that, without strongly deliquescent salts to attract and retain liquid water in the Martian soil, frost-heaving phenomena are not to be expected on Mars. On the other hand frost-heaving phenomena involving the freezing and thawing of ammonia may be common in the soils of Jupiter.


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