Re: Dense fogs in Valles Marineris Mars.

From: Mitchell Jones (mjones_at_21cenlogic.com)
Date: 03/17/05 

Date: 17 Mar 2005 01:49:09 EST

In article <1110884206.940776.184270@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
 "Robert Clark" <rgregoryclark@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Here's the link to that dense fog over Marineris:
>
> http://sciforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=3999

***{Wow! Has that been retouched? If not, that's one of the most
spectacular Mars photos I've ever seen! Of especial interest is what
appears to be a pool of liquid water showing at the far right of the
photo. Using the scale shown, the location of the pool is 129 km down
from the top edge, and 22 km in from the right edge. It looks like a
nice blue pool of water! And I see other apparent pools elsewhere, all
of them down in the low areas, some obscured by fog. The NASA folks, of
course, will explain it all away. "It's just another one of them pesky
false color photos," they will say. That's their standard comment
whenever lots of green or blue jumps out at the "lay" observer. --MJ}***

> Bob Clark
>
>
> Robert Clark wrote:
> > Presentations from the First Mars Express conference held in February
> > are available here:
> >
> > First Mars Express Conference Presentations.
> > http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=36537
> >
> > These reports are longer than the 2-page abstracts seen from the
> Lunar
> > and Planetary Science Conference, some over 30 pages long.
> >
> > A great image of dense fog in Valles Marineris is shown in this
> > report:
> >
> > Reflectance of fog in Valles Marineris.
> > A. Inada
> > http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/doc.cfm?fobjectid=36724
> >
> > And this report has a beautiful full-color image of this very dense
> > fog:
> >
> > Adsorption water driven processes on Mars.
> > D. Möhlmann
> > http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/doc.cfm?fobjectid=36779
> >
> > This article speculates on how adsorbed layers of water might be used
> > by microbes on Mars.
> >
> > Valles Marineris is both low altitude and low latitude so should be
> > within the pressure and temperature range to permit liquid water for
> > this fog close to the surface.
> >
> >
> > cf.,
> >
> > From: Robert Clark (rgregoryclark@yahoo.com)
> > Subject: Supercooled liquid water can occur in clouds below 0 degrees
> > C.
> > Newsgroups: sci.astro, alt.sci.planetary, sci.geo.meteorology,
> > sci.geo.geology, sci.geo.mineralogy
> > Date: 2004-07-30 06:53:02 PST
> > http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?th=5bba314873613fde&
> >
> >
> > Bob Clark

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