Islands of ice on Mars and Pluto

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
• Main Authors: Sori, Michael M., Bapst, Jonathan, Becerra, Patricio, Byrne, Shane
• Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Lunar & Planetary Lab
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION 2019
• Subjects: ice mounds; volatiles; craters; south polar layered deposits; Sputnik Planitia; Sputnik; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10150/636169; https://doi.org/10.1029/2018je005861

Ice sheets, such as the polar layered deposits (PLDs) of Mars, are of great interest as records of past climate. Smaller outlier ice deposits near the north and south PLDs are likely more sensitive to climate changes and thus may hold information about more recent climate history. However, the south...