Planet Four Talk

When is a blotch not a blotch?

  • jules by jules

    In an image like this I have been assuming that some of the dark areas around the spider terrain really are blotches from CO2 geysers but that the majority of the dark patches are just the result of "normal" (non-geyser) sublimation revealing the terrain beneath the ice.

    Am I way off?

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  • Paul_Johnson by Paul_Johnson

    I think this could be 'seepage' but don't know where to find the explanation. Th dust leaking out of ice through weaknesses or cracks.

    Maybe!

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  • jules by jules

    OK, that makes sense too. So a feature at the end of the Martian winter maybe.

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