Publication Date:
2007-09-22
Description:
Mars' polar regions are covered with ice-rich layered deposits that potentially contain a record of climate variations. The sounding radar SHARAD on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mapped detailed subsurface stratigraphy in the Promethei Lingula region of the south polar plateau, Planum Australe. Radar reflections interpreted as layers are correlated across adjacent orbits and are continuous for up to 150 kilometers along spacecraft orbital tracks. The reflectors are often separated into discrete reflector sequences, and strong echoes are seen as deep as 1 kilometer. In some cases, the sequences are dipping with respect to each other, suggesting an interdepositional period of erosion. In Australe Sulci, layers are exhumed, indicating recent erosion.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Seu, Roberto -- Phillips, Roger J -- Alberti, Giovanni -- Biccari, Daniela -- Bonaventura, Francesco -- Bortone, Marco -- Calabrese, Diego -- Campbell, Bruce A -- Cartacci, Marco -- Carter, Lynn M -- Catallo, Claudio -- Croce, Anna -- Croci, Renato -- Cutigni, Marco -- Di Placido, Antonio -- Dinardo, Salvatore -- Federico, Costanzo -- Flamini, Enrico -- Fois, Franco -- Frigeri, Alessandro -- Fuga, Oreste -- Giacomoni, Emanuele -- Gim, Yonggyu -- Guelfi, Mauro -- Holt, John W -- Kofman, Wlodek -- Leuschen, Carlton J -- Marinangeli, Lucia -- Marras, Paolo -- Masdea, Arturo -- Mattei, Stefania -- Mecozzi, Riccardo -- Milkovich, Sarah M -- Morlupi, Antonio -- Mouginot, Jeremie -- Orosei, Roberto -- Papa, Claudio -- Paterno, Tobia -- Persi del Marmo, Paolo -- Pettinelli, Elena -- Pica, Giulia -- Picardi, Giovanni -- Plaut, Jeffrey J -- Provenziani, Marco -- Putzig, Nathaniel E -- Russo, Federica -- Safaeinili, Ali -- Salzillo, Giuseppe -- Santovito, Maria Rosaria -- Smrekar, Suzanne E -- Tattarletti, Barbara -- Vicari, Danilo -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2007 Sep 21;317(5845):1715-8.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Dipartimento INFOCOM, Universita di Roma "La Sapienza," I-00184 Rome, Italy. roberto.seu@uniroma1.it〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17885128" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Extraterrestrial Environment
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Ice
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*Mars
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
,
Computer Science
,
Medicine
,
Natural Sciences in General
,
Physics
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