タイトル | Evaporation Rates of Brine on Mars |
著者(英) | Kareev, M.; Chittenden, J.; Meier, A.; Moore, S. R.; Sears, D. W. G.; Farmer, C. B. |
著者所属(英) | Jet Propulsion Lab., California Inst. of Tech. |
発行日 | 2004-01-01 2004 |
言語 | eng |
内容記述 | While Mars is now largely a dry and barren place, recent data have indicated that water has flowed at specific locations within the last approx. 10(exp 6) y. This had led to a resurgence of interest in theoretical and experimental work aimed at understanding the behavior of water on Mars. There are several means whereby the stability of liquid water on Mars could be increased, one being the presence solutes that would depress the freezing point. Salt water on Earth is about 0.5M NaCl, but laboratory experiments suggest that martian salt water is quite different. We recently began a program of laboratory measurements of the stability of liquid water, ice and ice-dust mixtures under martian conditions and here report measurements of the evaporation rate of 0.25M brine. |
NASA分類 | Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration |
権利 | Copyright, Distribution under U.S. Government purpose rights |
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