Martian landslides caused by underground salts and melting ice?
Loading video... VIDEO: Short video illustrating wetting of Mars soil analog material covering calcium sulfate and calcium chloride from below, absorption of water by salts and soil particles, migration of the salts towards... view more Credit: Video Credit: Janice Bishop and Markus Gruendler, SETI Institute February 3, 2021, Mountain View, CA - A team of researchers led by SETI Institute Senior Research Scientist Janice Bishop, a member of the SETI Institute NASA Astrobiology Institute (NAI) team, has come up with a theory about what is causing landslides on the surface of Mars. Pre...
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