Comments on: Scientists: Mars’ mysterious slope streaks and seasonal recurring lineae are caused by dust https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/scientists-mars-mysterious-slope-streaks-and-seasonal-recurring-lineae-are-caused-by-dust/ Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:30:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Robert Zimmerman https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/scientists-mars-mysterious-slope-streaks-and-seasonal-recurring-lineae-are-caused-by-dust/#comment-1451911 Thu, 14 Mar 2024 16:30:23 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=103535#comment-1451911 In reply to Max.

Max: This volcano paper was presented this week at the Lunar and Planetary conference. New Atlas is overstating its significance. The volcano remnant is real, but the story here is not its discovery but its context in the overall geological history of Mars. It is very old, and appears to have occurred in some relation to the theorized catastrophic floods that created Valles Marineris.

]]> By: Max https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/scientists-mars-mysterious-slope-streaks-and-seasonal-recurring-lineae-are-caused-by-dust/#comment-1451893 Thu, 14 Mar 2024 15:56:58 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=103535#comment-1451893 This is such a strange sight as always.
Having worked in dust capturing systems of very fine particulate, dust flows in the lowest crevices and pools at the base of the slope just like water… But when extremely dry, it has a static electrical charge which allows it to spread out and even float in the air settling slowly or being attracted to opposite charges. (The sun‘s UV does to the Martian surface what your old cathode ray TV did to dust particles in the air causing them to be attracted to the TV set, the way some good air filtration system‘s operate efficiently)

So little dust starting from such a narrow point and spreading to cover such a large area doesn’t seem possible. (hence the mystery) The slope streak just below the big one seems to be flowing uphill? Or instead of spreading out it got more narrow as it flows down… can’t explain it. Perhaps it’s related to carbon dioxide venting similar to the black streaks coming from the ice cap? oxygen free carbon like graphene or graphite?

Here’s a new mystery that I didn’t see coming, a new volcano discovered on Mars… Junk science? Geologist using their imagination to explain the largest canyon in the solar system?
https://newatlas.com/space/martian-volcano-ice/

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