Comments on: The strange carbon dioxide ice cap of Mars’ south pole https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-strange-carbon-dioxide-ice-cap-of-mars-south-pole/ Tue, 13 Aug 2024 06:40:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Dave Flynn https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/the-strange-carbon-dioxide-ice-cap-of-mars-south-pole/#comment-1508629 Tue, 13 Aug 2024 06:40:30 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=107437#comment-1508629 Cool looking Mars maze. I couldn’t find any easy way through.
All I could think of for how it formed was a half billion years or so of freezer-burn/sublimation. BTW – CO2 ice crystals are about 100x smaller than H2O ice crystals/flakes, and very densely packed (cuboctahedral).
I discovered a package of freezer-burn sausages starting look similar after a couple of months at the bottom of my freezer.

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