Comments on: Glaciers or taffy on Mars? https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/glaciers-or-taffy-on-mars/ Fri, 27 Jan 2023 19:42:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Max https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/glaciers-or-taffy-on-mars/#comment-1393830 Fri, 27 Jan 2023 19:42:13 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=92054#comment-1393830 Wonderful picture, best clear evidence for viscous fluid i.e. liquid saturated soil pushed into a mud flow before freezing into a glacier.(higher air pressure allows liquid water, without boiling and evaporating away, at the lowest point on Mars) At the end of the large flow it’s very rough, similar to what I’ve seen on Yukon River in the spring when the ice breaks up and creates “ice dams”. Thick surface ice that piles up reaching dozens of feet high at times, causing Yukon water to flow up and around until pressure lifts and breaks it up again. (The lower Yukon is wide, but very slow and shallow)
Every house in the villages near the river has thick log Posts in front of their house to prevent ice from destroying their homes when the water is forced outside of its banks.

Although this is more likely the remnant of mud ice, that froze on the surface as it flowed towards the end, and then fresh mud, from deep in the flow still warm and fluid, has irrupted to the side, being very smooth before freezing. A second flow much smaller nearby flowing down from the right of the picture, has similar evidence of being frozen on the top and then suddenly irrupting from under the tip of the ice dam that is rough, with a flow that froze very smooth. But then, lava on the slopes of the volcanoes look similar.

Other details like dust devil trails across the landscape, and a few dark spots that appeared to be windows and cracks in the ice with darkness in the cracks that could be very deep or vents. One window has a trail leading out of it like it had water flowing.
The deep trench in the middle of a flow in lower left is curious, perhaps the center was filled with liquid water leaving a water “lake” depression before it all froze and evaporated away leaving the bowl shape trench behind?
Couldn’t find Waldo…

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