Eutectic Brines on Mars: Origin and Poss
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L.Paul Knauth; Donald M. Burt
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Article
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2002
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Elsevier Science
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English
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If the recently observed young gullies on Mars represent seeps or outflows of aqueous fluid, that fluid must be highly concentrated brine to be even moderately stable under current martian surface conditions. Such brines are to be expected in the megaregolith if an initial saline hydrosphere underwe