Dense fogs in Valles Marineris Mars.

Presentations from the First Mars Express conference held in February
are available he

First Mars Express Conference Presentations.
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/obj...jectid=3D36537

These reports are longer than the 2-page abstracts seen from the Lunar
and Planetary Science Conference, some over 30 pages long.

A great image of dense fog in Valles Marineris is shown in this
report:

Reflectance of fog in Valles Marineris.
A=2E Inada
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/obj...jectid=3D36724

And this report has a beautiful full-color image of this very dense
fog:

Adsorption water driven processes on Mars.
D=2E M=F6hlmann
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/obj...jectid=3D36779

This article speculates on how adsorbed layers of water might be used
by microbes on Mars.

Valles Marineris is both low altitude and low latitude so should be
within the pressure and temperature range to permit liquid water for
this fog close to the surface.


cf.,

From: Robert Clark )
Subject: Supercooled liquid water can occur in clouds below 0 degrees
C=2E
Newsgroups: sci.astro, alt.sci.planetary, sci.geo.meteorology,
sci.geo.geology, sci.geo.mineralogy
Date: 2004-07-30 06:53:02 PST
http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?th...a314873613fde&


Bob Clark