Thickness of frozen rocks and the cryolithosphere on Mars

Oleg Abramenko; Ilya Komarov; Vladislav Isaev

doi:10.1117/12.800815

28 August 2008 Thickness of frozen rocks and the cryolithosphere on Mars

Oleg Abramenko, Ilya Komarov, Vladislav Isaev

Proceedings Volume 7097, Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology XI; 70970Z (2008) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.800815
Event: Optical Engineering + Applications, 2008, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

Conceptions of thickness of frost rock and cryolithosphere of Mars were considered by R.Kuzmin (Kuzmin 1983), M. Krass and V.Merzlikin (Krass & Merzlikin 1990), S.M.Clifford and T.J.Parker (Clifford & Parker 2001). Mostly the evaluations of martian cryolithosphere thickness were carried out on the base of model of stable temperature field. The thickness of frost rock massive H_m was found by the profile of stationary distribution of temperature with the depth for one and two-layer lithological model. We input average annual temperature of surface, temperature of phase change of H₂0 and temperature of heat transfer and value of heat flux to the lower boarder of permafrost. The difference was in the choosing of parameters: average values of heat conductivity coefficient of upper layers, values of heat flux from inside, average temperature of surface, profile model.

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Oleg Abramenko, Ilya Komarov, and Vladislav Isaev "Thickness of frozen rocks and the cryolithosphere on Mars", Proc. SPIE 7097, Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology XI, 70970Z (28 August 2008); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.800815

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