Creep of Water Ice Plus Magnesium Perchlorate Hydrate
Abstract
Motivated by a Mars NPLD morphology that suggests a material of weaker rheology than ice, we deformed a polycrystalline sample of solid ice + magnesium perchlorate. The material is profoundly weaker than pure water ice at Mars polar cap temperatures.
- Publication:
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42nd Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
- Pub Date:
- March 2011
- Bibcode:
- 2011LPI....42.1909L