Comments on: Peeling flood lava on Mars https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/peeling-flood-lava-on-mars/ Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:27:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/peeling-flood-lava-on-mars/#comment-1546094 Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:27:05 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=111637#comment-1546094 In reply to gbaikie.

gbaikie: You are absolutely right. However, the geology visible now is all lava-based, from those volcanic eruptions. While it is certainly possible near-surface ice in the past helped erode that lava, in this case I have doubts.

]]> By: gbaikie https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/peeling-flood-lava-on-mars/#comment-1546018 Fri, 24 Jan 2025 13:32:54 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=111637#comment-1546018 “The location is just north of the equator, so this is in the dry tropics of Mars, where no near-surface ice is found at all.”
Well, Mars equator, hasn’t always been Mars equator- in geological time, Mars equator hasn’t been dry tropics, but lots of time as wet polar region.

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