Comments on: The edge of an eroded buried Martian glacier

By: Max

Max — Tue, 19 May 2020 06:33:25 +0000

Like your name, I still believe that the evidence suggest that Europa, Mars, and earth as well as most of the outer solar system’s moons and comets were covered in gases from a supernova in the Local Fluff. A chimney full of gases that drifted our way, causing the sun to go dark, condensed in the cold and froze to all surfaces that came in contact with, covering Mars and earth in an ice age as described with woolly mammoth being covered in 100 feet of ice with butter cups in their mouth’s. A sudden catastrophic event that would add so much mass to every gravitational body that it would alter the orbits causing chaos events.
An unstable Sun can also throw gases out in the solar wind throughout the system. This is unlikely because it would’ve made life on this planet difficult instead of just a few extinction events. This would also explain how we got so much nitrogen and water.
The Martian ice caps and any glaciers covered in dust will tell quite a story as being leftover remnants of the supernova inner galactic cloud event. A cloud of dust and gas that is not much different than what covers the center of our own galaxy hiding it from our view.

By: Robert Zimmerman

Robert Zimmerman — Mon, 18 May 2020 20:58:19 +0000

In reply to LocalFluff. LocalFluff: To answer your question in a word: Yes. You were not around for awhile, so you probably missed a lot of my posts in the past year on this subject. Do a search on BtB on "glaciers" and you will be able to catch up. This post however provides a good summary: The glaciers of Mars

By: LocalFluff

LocalFluff — Mon, 18 May 2020 20:50:03 +0000

Do you think that all these glaciers are left overs (dust covered) polar caps from Mars’ history of flipping over its axis of rotation? I imagine the polar caps, the areas where the atmosphere condenses to ice, are migrating as their orientation relative to the Sun changes. Throughout the ages, all of Mars’ surface has been polar at some time.

I wonder whether it is a coincidence that today the low land hemisphere happens to be perfectly aligned with the northern hemisphere. Or if this somehow is gravitationally more stable.