Solar-System-Wide Significance of Mars Polar Science

Mars Polar Science is an integrated, compelling system that serves as a nearby analogue to numerous other planets, supports human exploration, and habitability. Mars possesses the closest and most easily accessible layered ice deposits outside of Earth, and accessing those layers to read the climate...

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Published in:Bulletin of the AAS
Main Authors: Smith, I. B., Calvin, W., Smith, D., Hansen, C., Diniega, S., McEwen, A., Thomas, N., Banfield, D., Titus, T., Becerra, P., Kahre, M., Forget, F., Hecht, M., Byrne, S., Hvidberg, Christine, Hayne, Paul, Head, J W, Mellon, M., Horgan, B., Mustard, J., Holt, John, Howard, A., McCleese, D., Stoker, C., James, P., Putzig, N., Whitten, J., Buhler, Peter, Spiga, A., Crismani, M., Hauber, Ernst, Ulamec, Stephan, Adeli, Solmaz
Format: Other Non-Article Part of Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Astronomical Society 2021
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Online Access:https://elib.dlr.de/148035/
https://elib.dlr.de/148035/1/Smith_et_al.Mars_Polar_Science.BAAS_2021.pdf
https://baas.aas.org/pub/2021n4i301/release/1
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Summary:Mars Polar Science is an integrated, compelling system that serves as a nearby analogue to numerous other planets, supports human exploration, and habitability. Mars possesses the closest and most easily accessible layered ice deposits outside of Earth, and accessing those layers to read the climate record would be a triumph for planetary science.