In article ,
Jens Kieffer-Olsen wrote:
I take it that gravity on Mars being a mere 38% of that in the
experiment has little bearing on the evaporation rate?
Very little. And as a practical matter, it's virtually impossible to
reproduce that anyway...

Airplanes in free fall are used to produce brief periods of zero
gravity, so why not let a slight trust emulate .38G?

No need for a slight thrust; emulating lunar or Martian gravity is just
a matter of flying a slightly shallower parabola. It's been done
occasionally. But the available time at reduced G is too short for
some things; I think it would be quite a trick to get measurements of
things like this in the time available.
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