New Insights Into Composition Variation of Mars South Polar Layered Deposits From SHARAD Radar Sounder
Peng Fang,
Jinhai Zhang
Abstract:The south polar layered deposits (SPLD) of Mars record its Amazonian climate history. Detailed stratigraphic analyses of the SPLD will improve our understanding of the Martian depositional system. Radar reflection patterns correlate with the varying composition of the internal layers, thus providing a key to unlocking the depositional history of the SPLD and Martian paleoclimate. Using data from SHAllow RADar (SHARAD) onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, we studied a new type of weak reflection pattern (sh… Show more
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