How Boiling Water Flows on Mars
NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter looks at seasonal flows.
Nature Geoscience, a part of Nature.com, reported in an article, Planetary Science: Jumping grains on Mars, that “Liquid water on Mars may be an agent of surface change, but it is unstable under the thin atmosphere.“
The article, behind Nature.com’s pay wall, explains how researchers on Earth built a chamber to simulate Martian-like conditions. They found that as the water may boil under the red planet’s low pressure it displaces sediment that “modifies the landscape.”
Tags: geoscience, hydrology, environmental engineering, NASA, Mars, water
