Absolute lowest point on Mars |
Absolute lowest point on Mars |
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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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Should be about 15mb of max air pressure and water boiling point of 13C.
http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.p...st&p=192830 -------------------- Steve [ my home page and planetary maps page ]
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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. ![]() 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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