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Absolute lowest point on Mars
BuckGalaxy
post Nov 24 2016, 12:50 AM
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This small crater within the Hellas Crater is the lowest point on Mars but I can't seem to find any detailed information on it. Not even a name. Anyone have any info on its name, size, how deep it is, atmospheric pressure, temperature ranges, etc?



Sorry if this info is already somewhere else on this site but I can't locate it if it is.
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scalbers
post Nov 27 2016, 06:44 PM
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Should be about 15mb of max air pressure and water boiling point of 13C.

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post Nov 30 2016, 11:23 AM
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QUOTE (scalbers @ Nov 27 2016, 07:44 PM) *
Should be about 15mb of max air pressure and water boiling point of 13C.


13 degrees? I still feel that's a bit chilly for a swim. tongue.gif

Serious: Hellas have indeed been mentioned as the best candidate for potential liquid water, even if it might only be in the form of a bit of humidity today.
Now that assumption was most likely based on potential airpressure alone, now BuckGalaxy migh thave pinpointed the very spot where there might be a fraction more of that.

This polygonal terrain JRehling mention is indeed a sign of that the area have dried up at some point.
There's a hypothesis that Mars undergo warmer and more benign periods from time to time, if water have been flowing here comparatively more recently - 10-100 kiloyears or so, it must have been so smallscale we cannot see it in the image resolution we now have for the area.
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