Surface Locations of Potential Aquifer Ecosystem on Mars
Abstract
The origins of outflow channels and sites of suspected karst terrain on Mars possibly indicate where aquifers once existed. Aquifers on Mars are potential hosts to ecosystem development because of the sustained presence of liquid water and subsurface warm temperature.
- Publication:
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Earth Moon and Planets
- Pub Date:
- June 1991
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00055950
- Bibcode:
- 1991EM&P...53..237T
- Keywords:
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- Aquifers;
- Ecosystems;
- Mars Surface;
- Paleoclimatology;
- Terrain;
- Lunar and Planetary Exploration