Water‐Ice Exposing Scarps Within the Northern Midlatitude Craters on Mars
Abstract We report new exposures of water ice along the scarps wall located within craters in the northern midlatitude region of Mars using high‐resolution imagery and spectral data of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The exposed water‐ice deposits are shallower and exhibit 1.5 and 2 μm absorption. Thes...
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| author | Harish S. Vijayan N. Mangold Anil Bhardwaj |
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| description | Abstract We report new exposures of water ice along the scarps wall located within craters in the northern midlatitude region of Mars using high‐resolution imagery and spectral data of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The exposed water‐ice deposits are shallower and exhibit 1.5 and 2 μm absorption. These scarps are located on the pole‐facing walls and equator‐facing wall origin floor deposits which formed over the latitude dependent mantle. Our observations advance in bracketing the younger ice deposits through the crater size‐frequency distributions of host craters, which formed around ~25 and ~95 Myr and exposed around ~1 Myr. This reveals that ice transportation, accumulation, compaction, and ice‐dust mixing occurred in recent epochs. Our study complements the earlier studies that shallow water ice is spatially widespread and consistent with subsurface water‐ice detection by neutron spectrometer. We interpret the ice remnants likely to preserve in craters pole‐facing wall and equator‐facing wall‐associated floor deposits, which demonstrates widespread water‐ice resources on Mars. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e5f1edfeef324beaa9001b42e50eda2c2025-10-08T11:33:05ZengWileyGeophysical Research Letters0094-82761944-80072020-07-014714n/an/a10.1029/2020GL089057Water‐Ice Exposing Scarps Within the Northern Midlatitude Craters on MarsHarish0S. Vijayan1N. Mangold2Anil Bhardwaj3Planetary Science Division Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad IndiaPlanetary Science Division Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad IndiaLaboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique, Nantes, CNRS UMR6112, Université de Nantes, Université d'Angers Nantes FrancePlanetary Science Division Physical Research Laboratory Ahmedabad IndiaAbstract We report new exposures of water ice along the scarps wall located within craters in the northern midlatitude region of Mars using high‐resolution imagery and spectral data of Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The exposed water‐ice deposits are shallower and exhibit 1.5 and 2 μm absorption. These scarps are located on the pole‐facing walls and equator‐facing wall origin floor deposits which formed over the latitude dependent mantle. Our observations advance in bracketing the younger ice deposits through the crater size‐frequency distributions of host craters, which formed around ~25 and ~95 Myr and exposed around ~1 Myr. This reveals that ice transportation, accumulation, compaction, and ice‐dust mixing occurred in recent epochs. Our study complements the earlier studies that shallow water ice is spatially widespread and consistent with subsurface water‐ice detection by neutron spectrometer. We interpret the ice remnants likely to preserve in craters pole‐facing wall and equator‐facing wall‐associated floor deposits, which demonstrates widespread water‐ice resources on Mars.https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089057Marswater icecrater |
| spellingShingle | Harish S. Vijayan N. Mangold Anil Bhardwaj Water‐Ice Exposing Scarps Within the Northern Midlatitude Craters on Mars Mars water ice crater |
| title | Water‐Ice Exposing Scarps Within the Northern Midlatitude Craters on Mars |
| title_full | Water‐Ice Exposing Scarps Within the Northern Midlatitude Craters on Mars |
| title_fullStr | Water‐Ice Exposing Scarps Within the Northern Midlatitude Craters on Mars |
| title_full_unstemmed | Water‐Ice Exposing Scarps Within the Northern Midlatitude Craters on Mars |
| title_short | Water‐Ice Exposing Scarps Within the Northern Midlatitude Craters on Mars |
| title_sort | water ice exposing scarps within the northern midlatitude craters on mars |
| topic | Mars water ice crater |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL089057 |
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