Hoyle's ice age origin: Application to Mars |
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Authors: | Kent D Trego |
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Institution: | (1) Planetology Research Institute, Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | If we assume that the Martian outflow channels are result of sporadic melting of ground ice, their planet-wide distribution could imply that a sheet of ice once covered Mars. This ice sheet could have acted, in a similar manner as Hoyle's oceanic meteoric dust suspension layer model as an initiator of a Martian ice age which would be responsible for the decline of valley network formation at the end of the heavy bombardment period. |
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