Antarctic lakes (above and beneath the ice sheet): Analogues for Mars

• Main Author: Rice, J. W., Jr.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 1992
• Subjects: LUNAR AND PLANETARY EXPLORATION; Arctic; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Bunger Hills; Ice Lakes; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19930010628

The perennial ice covered lakes of the Antarctic are considered to be excellent analogues to lakes that once existed on Mars. Field studies of ice covered lakes, paleolakes, and polar beaches were conducted in the Bunger Hills Oasis, Eastern Antarctica. These studies are extended to the Dry Valleys,...