Could new theory answer what causes landslides on Mars? | University of Hawaiʻi System News
RSL). SETI Institute senior research scientist and member of the NASA Astrobiology Institute team, alternatively hypothesizes that small-scale ice melting underground causes changes that make the surface vulnerable to dust storms and wind. As a result, the features appear or expand on the surface of Mars. Further, the team believes that the thin layers of melting ice result from interactions between underground water ice, chlorine salts and sulfates, which create an unstable, liquid-like flowing slush that instigates sinkholes, ground collapse, surface flows and upheave. Earth sediments para...
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