Mare Australe quadrangle

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Mare Australe is the south pole of Mars.


The region around the South Pole in the Mare Australe quadrangle is chuck full of unusual features that are created by bewildering processes. And they have been given equally odd names: spiders, Swiss-cheese terrain, dust devils, and polygons. During certain seasons, geysers of dust blow out of the ground and go hundreds of feet into the air. At another season, giant dust devils move over the landscape. Much of the environs is full of things related to dry ice changing into a gas. Indeed, this process makes measurable changes in the gravity of the planet. Life may now exist in a giant liquid lake under the ice cap.

The Mare Australe quadrangle is one of a series of 30 quadrangle maps of Mars used by the United States Geological Survey (USGS). The Mare Australe quadrangle is also referred to as MC-30 (Mars Chart-30).[1] The quadrangle covers all the area of Mars south of 65°. The quadrangle's name derives from an older name for a feature that is now called Planum Australe, a large plain surrounding the polar cap.[2] The Mars polar lander crash landed in this region.[3] [4]


Notable features

The region includes the South Polar ice cap. The central part is mainly a permanent residual ice cap surrounded by layered and troughed terrain which is, in turn, encircled by heavily cratered terrain. Around the southern ice cap is a surface, called the Dorsa Argentea Formation that may be an old ice-rich deposit. It contains a group of sinuous, branched ridges that resembles eskers that form when streams are under glaciers.[5] The formation often contains pits: two major locations are named Cavi Angusti and Cavi Sisyphi. The pits have steep sides and an irregular shape. They are up to 50 km across and 1 km deep.[6] The quadrangle also contains “Angustus Labyrinthus”, a formation of intersecting valley or ridges, nicknamed the "Inca City". Its straight and box-like shapes look like the remains of an old city.[7] Researchers were surprised to see parts of the surface having a Swiss-cheese appearance. Also, some areas showed strange spider-shaped forms, which were determined to be caused by carbon dioxide gas blowing dust around at certain times of the year. Some craters in Mare Australe show gullies. Martian gullies are small, incised networks of narrow channels and their associated downslope sediment deposits, found in certain locations on the Planet. They are named for their resemblance to terrestrial gullies. First discovered on images from Mars Global Surveyor, they occur on steep slopes, especially on the walls of craters. Usually, each gully has an alcove at its head, a fan-shaped apron at its base, and a channel linking the two, giving the whole gully an hourglass shape.[8] They are believed to be relatively young because they have few, if any craters. On the basis of their form, aspects, positions, and location amongst and apparent interaction with features thought to be rich in water ice, many researchers believed that the processes carving the gullies involve liquid water. However, this idea changed as more observations poured into NASA facilities. As soon as gullies were discovered, researchers began to image many gullies over and over, looking for possible changes. By 2006, some changes were found.[9] Later, with further analysis it was determined that the changes could have occurred by dry granular flows rather than being driven by flowing water.[10][11] [12] With continued observations many more changes were found in Gasa Crater and others.[13] It was discovered that changes in gullies occur in the winter and spring. Before-and-after images demonstrated the timing of this activity coincided with seasonal carbon-dioxide frost and temperatures that would not have allowed for liquid water. So, new gullies were produced just when dry ice started to thaw in the spring. Consequently, experts now believe that gullies were formed from dry ice. The process would have been helped along by dry ice frost changing to a gas, thereby lifting and lubricating dry material on steep slopes.[14] [15][16] In some years frost, perhaps as thick as 1 meter accumulates during winter months.

Freezing of atmosphere

Research based on slight changes in the orbits of spacecraft around Mars over 16 years found that when one hemisphere experiences winter, approximately 3 trillion to 4 trillion tons of carbon dioxide freezes out of the atmosphere onto the northern and southern polar caps. This represents 12 to 16 percent of the mass of the entire Martian atmosphere. These observation support predictions from the Mars Global Reference Atmospheric Model—2010.[17] [18]

Lake of liquid water

Scientists reported in July 2018, the discovery of a lake of liquid water under the southern ice cap. The measurements were gathered with the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) on board the European Space Agency's orbiting Mars Express spacecraft. Radar reflections showed a bright spot in the ice layers that analysis later showed that it had to be a lake of liquid water. It is believed that the water remains liquid, even at the temperature of -68 degrees Celsius because the water probably contains much dissolved salt that lowers the freezing point. The lake is about 20 kilometers across and at least 10 centimeters deep. It could contain 10 billion liters of liquid water.[19] [20] There could very well be many small bodies of water under the ice cap; however, they are difficult to detect with MARSIS. Also, the raw date coverage needed for these detections is limited—only a few percent of the area has a full set of data. [21]

Spiders

Spiders 

                                                       Spiders


Early on orbiting satellites saw strange features that looked like and were called “spiders.” After a number of years of observations, scientists finally came up with an explanation for these features. During the winter, much frost accumulates. It freezes out directly onto the surface of the permanent polar cap, which is made of water ice covered with layers of dust and sand. The deposit begins as a layer of dusty carbon dioxide frost. Over the winter, it recrystallizes and becomes denser. The dust and sand particles caught in the frost slowly sink. By the time temperatures rise in the spring, the frost layer has become a slab of semi-transparent ice about 3 feet thick, lying on a substrate of dark sand and dust. This dark material absorbs light and causes the ice to sublimate (turn directly into a gas) below the surface. Eventually much gas accumulates and becomes pressurized. When it finds a weak spot, the gas escapes and blows out the dust.[22] Speeds can reach 100 miles per hour.[23] Dark channels which contain dust can sometimes be seen; they are called "spiders."[24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] The surface appears covered with dark spots when this process is occurring.[30] The official name for spiders is "araneiforms."[31] These features can be seen in some of the pictures below.

  • Plumes and spiders

  • Wide view of plumes and spiders, as seen by HiRISE under HiWish program

  • Wide view of crater that contains examples of spiders Close views of some of the spider formations are shown in following images.

  • Close view of spider formations The polygon shapes are channels caused by pressurized carbon dioxide going through cracks. During the winter season, a slab of dry ice forms on the ground surface. The surface contains cracks in the shape of polygons. During certain times, CO2 under the ice becomes pressurized from sunlight penetrating the slab of dry ice. As the gas moves around the channels become larger.

Close view of spider formations, as seen by HiRISE under HiWish program Polygon-shaped channels are also visible. 

                              Close view of spider formations, as seen by HiRISE under HiWish program Polygon-shaped channels are also visible.

South polar cap

The south polar permanent cap is much smaller than the one in the north. It is 400 km in diameter, as compared to the 1100 km diameter of the northern cap.[32] Each southern winter, the ice cap covers the surface to a latitude of 50°.[33] Part of the ice cap consists of dry ice, solid carbon dioxide. Each winter the ice cap grows by adding 1.5 to 2 meters of dry ice from precipitation from a polar-hood of clouds. In summer, the dry ice sublimates (goes directly from a solid to a gas) into the atmosphere. During each year on Mars as much as a third of Mars' thin carbon dioxide (CO2) atmosphere "freezes out" during the winter in the northern and southern hemispheres. Scientists have even measured tiny changes in the gravity field of Mars due to the movement of carbon dioxide. In other words, the winter buildup of ice changes the gravity of the planet.[34] Mars has seasons that are similar to Earth's because its rotational axis has a tilt close to our own Earth's (25.19° for Mars, 23.45° for Earth). The south polar cap is higher in altitude and colder than the one in the north.[35]

The residual southern ice cap is displaced; that is, it is not centered on the South Pole. However, the south seasonal cap is centered near the geographic pole. That is the larger, winter cap is centered, but not the summer cap.[36] Studies have shown that the off center cap is caused by much more snow falling on one side than the other. In the end, the off center cap is due to the texture of the surface. On the western hemisphere side of the South Pole a low pressure system forms because the winds are changed by the Hellas Basin. This system produces more snow. On the other side, there is less snow and more frost. Snow tends to reflect more sunlight in the summer so not much melts or sublimates (Mars climate causes snow to go directly from a solid to a gas). One side has more frost, the other has more snow. Frost on the other hand has a rougher surface and tends to trap more sunlight, resulting in more sublimation. In other words, areas with more of the rougher frost are warmer.[37]

Research, published in April 2011, described a large deposit of frozen carbon dioxide near the south pole. Most of this deposit probably enters Mars' atmosphere when the planet's tilt increases. When this occurs, the atmosphere thickens, winds get stronger, and larger areas on the surface can support liquid water.[38] This observation has great significance because if these deposits were all changed into gas, the atmospheric pressure on Mars would double.[39] There are three layers of these deposits; each is capped with a 30-meter layer of water ice that prevents the CO2 from sublimating into the atmosphere. In sublimation a solid material goes directly into a gas phase. These three layers are linked to periods when the atmosphere collapsed when the climate changed.[40]

Eskers

Eskers in Joly crater, as seen by CTX camera. Eskers are the ridges in the image; they are formed by streams running under a glacier. Eskers in Joly crater, as seen by CTX camera. Eskers are the ridges in the image; they are formed by streams running under a glacier.

Eskers are formed under glaciers and ice sheets. They were streams under the ice. Debris was deposited by running water. When he ice disappeared the eskers showed up as ridges made up of the rocks carried by the former stream.

  • Lau Crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Curved ridges are probably eskers which formed under glaciers.

  • Close up of eskers in Lau Crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). The dark lines are dust devil tracks. Note: this is an enlargement of the previous image of Lau Crater.

Dorsa Argentea Formation

A large field of eskers exist around the south pole. Since eskers were once streams under glaciers or ice sheets, it is believed that the eskers are proof of a giant ice sheet. This formations is called the ‘Dorsa Argentea Formation.”[41] [42] [43] [44] This large polar ice sheet is believed to have covered about 1.5 million square kilometers. That area is twice the area of the state of Texas.[45] This group of ridges extends from 270–100 E and 70–90 S, around the south pole of Mars. It sits under the Late Amazonian South Polar Layered Deposits (SPLD).

The combined volume of these ridges is huge, one study studied seven different ridge systems which contained almost 4,000 ridges that had a total length 51,000 km.[46] Most eskers are thought to be formed inside ice-walled tunnels by streams which flowed within and under glaciers. After the retaining ice walls melted away, stream deposits remained as long winding ridges. A team of researchers used an early Mars global climate model together with the University of Maine Ice Sheet Model to determine how the eskers formed. They concluded that to get a high enough temperature in the Martian atmosphere to form the ice sheet, a greenhouse gas in addition to a thicker carbon dioxide atmosphere was needed to warm the surface near the poles by at least 20 degrees C. Also, to produce the shape of the ice sheet, at least part of the Tharsis volcanoes needed to be present.[47] [48] [49] [50] [51] [52] [53] [54] There may have been much more water available in the Martian atmosphere when the ice sheet developed.[55] A thick ice sheet was able to be formed more easily in the south polar region than in the North pole because the south pole is higher in altitude.

  • Ridges, believed to be eskers of the Dorsa Argentea Formation, as seen by Mars Global Surveyor wide angle MOC. Arrows point to the ridges.

Defrosting

As the temperature warms and more sunlight becomes available in the spring, frost starts to disappear. This process begins with the appearance of dark spots. By the time the temperature rises to the melting point of water ice, all ice is gone. The process was first followed with repeated images by the Mars Global Surveyor.[56][57] With the much greater resolution of HiRISE, it was seen that many spots had the shape of fans. Some of these spots and fans are visible in the pictures below. Thousands of fans were examined by a Citizen Science project. Nearly all (96%) of the fans measured in this study have a length below 100m. The average fan length is at 33.1m. The three largest fans lengths of 373m, 368m and 361m and were all in the same region.[58] The spots have a fan shape due to winds. When the temperature goes up in the spring, gas with dust blow out of weak spots in the ground. Wind then shapes the dust into a fan shape.

  • Wide view of defrosting Gas and dark dust is probably being blown out of ground and then carried by winds toward the Northwest (upper left).

  • Close view of defrosting, as seen by HiRISE under HiWish program Gas and dark dust is probably being blown out of ground and then carried by winds toward the Northwest.

  • Close view of spring defrosting. The dark spots are where the ice has disappeared, thus revealing the dark surface beneath the ice.

Dust devil tracks

Many areas on Mars experience the passage of giant dust devils. A thin coating of fine bright dust covers most of the Martian surface. When a dust devil goes by it blows away the coating and exposes the underlying dark surface. Dust devils occur when the sun warms up the air near a flat, dry surface. The warm air then rises quickly through the cooler air and begins spinning while moving ahead. This spinning, moving cell may pick up dust and sand then leave behind a clean surface.[59] Dust devils have been seen from the ground and high overhead from orbit. They have even blown the dust off of the solar panels of the two Mars Exploration Rovers, thereby greatly extending their lives.[60] The twin Rovers were designed to last for 3 months, instead they went for many years, and one was active for over 16 years. The pattern of the tracks have been shown to change every few months A study that combined data from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) and the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) found that some large dust devils on Mars have a diameter of 700 meters and last at least 26 minutes.[61]

  • Dust Devil, as shown from HiRISE. Dust devil is moving to the upper left, leaving a dark track to the lower right. The shadow of the dust devil is to the upper left of the dust devil.

  • Weinbaum crater region showing dust devil tracks, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter)

  • Dust devil tracks in Mitchell crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Note: this is an enlargement of a previous image of west side of Mitchel crater.

Dust devil tracks and layers, as seen by HiRISE under HiWish program 

                    Dust devil tracks and layers, as seen by HiRISE under HiWish program

Gullies

Gullies occur on steep slopes, especially on the walls of craters. Gullies are believed to be relatively young because they have few, if any craters. Moreover, they lie on top of sand dunes which themselves are considered to be quite young. Usually, each gully has an alcove, channel, and apron.[62]

Gullies that were once thought to be caused by recent flowing water. However, with further extensive observations with HiRISE it was found that many are forming/changing today, even though liquid water cannot exist under current Martian conditions. Faced with these new observations, scientists came up with other ideas to explain them. The consensus seems to be that although water may have helped form them in the past, today they are being produced by chunks of dry ice moving down steep slopes. [63] [64] [65]


  • Heaviside Crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter).

Gullies in a crater that is on the floor of Heaviside Crater, as seen by CTX camera Note: this is an enlargement of the previous image of Heaviside Crater. Gullies in a crater that is on the floor of Heaviside Crater, as seen by CTX camera Note: this is an enlargement of the previous image of Heaviside Crater.


Gullies in Lyell crater, as seen by CTX camera 

                                                Gullies in Lyell crater, as seen by CTX camera

Layers in craters

Many places on Mars show rocks arranged in layers. The study of layering on Mars greatly expanded when the Mars Global Surveyor sent back images.[66] [67] Rock can form layers in a variety of ways. Volcanoes, wind, or water can produce layers.[68] [69] [70] A detailed discussion of layering with many Martian examples can be found in Sedimentary Geology of Mars.[71] A paper by Grotzinger and Milliken discusses the role of water and wind in forming layers of sedimentary rocks.[72] Since craters are low spots on the landscape material can more easily accumulate there and may resist erosion longer than other places.


  • Close-up of Layers in wall of McMurdo Crater, as seen by HiRISE.

  • Layers is Liais crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter).

  • Western side of South crater

  • Layers in southern part of mound in South crater

Layers in mound in western side of South crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Note: this is an enlargement of a previous image of west side of South crater. Layers in mound in western side of South crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Note: this is an enlargement of a previous image of west side of South crater.

Craters showing defrosting in spring

Dust trails in Main crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Arrow indicates wind direction. In the spring, as the temperature rises, dry ice turns into a pressurized gas, and then blows through a weak spot and carries with it dust. If there is a wind, the dust is deposited in an elongated form as in this image. Dust trails in Main crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Arrow indicates wind direction. In the spring, as the temperature rises, dry ice turns into a pressurized gas, and then blows through a weak spot and carries with it dust. If there is a wind, the dust is deposited in an elongated form as in this image.


  • Richardson Crater, as seen by CTX camera

  • Dunes and defrosting spots in Richardson Crater, as seen by HiRISE. It is thought that films of liquid water sometimes exist in and around the dark spots.

  • Defrosting taking place in Lyell crater, as seen by CTX camera Dark areas are where frost has disappeared thereby showing dark ground.

  • Dark spots and "spiders" in Joly crater, as seen by CTX camera. "Spiders" appear as fuzzy spots; they are where dark dust is accumulating in channels below clear slabs of frozen carbon dioxide.

Polygons

Close view of polygons with frost in the low parts, as seen by HiRISE under the HiWish program 

                   Close view of polygons with frost in the low parts, as seen by HiRISE under the HiWish program

Much of the surface of Mars shows the ground arranged into polygons of various sizes. Sometimes, during the right season the lows areas of polygons are full of frost. When this happens, the shapes are enhanced forming beautiful views.

  • Closer view of polygons

Still closer view of polygons with frost in the low parts Circular shapes are also visible. 

                      Still closer view of polygons with frost in the low parts Circular shapes are also visible.

Swiss Cheese Terrain

HiRISE view of South Pole Terrain. 

                                     HiRISE view of South Pole Terrain.


Parts of Mare Australe display pits that make the surface look like Swiss cheese.[73] [74] [75] [76] These pits are in a 1-10 meter thick layer of dry ice that is sitting on a much larger water ice cap. Pits have been observed to begin with small areas along faint fractures. The circular pits have steep walls that work to focus sunlight, thereby increasing erosion. For a pit to develop, a steep wall of about 10 cm and a length of over 5 meters in necessary.[77]

  • Changes in South Pole surface from 1999 to 2001, as seen by Mars Global Surveyor.

  • HiRISE view of South Pole Terrain.

Layers

  • South Pole layers, as seen by THEMIS.

  • Layers, as seen by HiRISE under HiWish program

  • Layers

Other features in Mare Australe quadrangle

  • Angustus Labyrinthus, (Inca City) as seen by THEMIS.

  • Close view of "Inca City" as seen by HiRISE. Light patches are frost deposits.

  • Ridge network, as seen by HiRISE under HiWish program

  • Low center polygons These features are common in ice-rich ground.

See also

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