Possible crater-based pingos, paleolakes and periglacial landscapes at the high latitudes of Utopia Planitia, Mars

• Published in: Icarus
• Main Authors: Soare, R. J., Conway, S. J., Pearce, G. D., Dohm, J. M., Grindrod, P. M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Conway; Ice; permafrost; Thermokarst
• Online Access: https://oro.open.ac.uk/34628/; https://oro.open.ac.uk/34628/1/34628.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2012.08.041

Closed-system pingos (CSPs) are perennial ice-cored mounds that evolve in relatively deep and continuous permafrost. They occur where thermokarst lakes either have lost or are losing their water by drainage, evaporation or sublimation and form by means of freeze-thaw cycling, permafrost aggradation...