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Interviews: the martian water cycle and climate
 
   
 
Residual water ice in Vastitas Borealis Crater
Water on Mars
 
Even in the clearest, bluest sky on Earth, there is still water vapour in our atmosphere. If you could condense all the water vapour out of the atmosphere above you, it would form a layer of water two centimetres deep. On Mars today, there is also water vapour in the atmosphere but it would create a layer just 10 micrometres thick.
 
   
  Interview: The martian water cycle and climate
 
With Robert Haberle, NASA Ames Research Center and Oleg Korablev, Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia.
 
   
  Interview: Frost and ice below the martian surface
 
With Bill Feldman, Planetary Science Institute, Arizona, USA and Bernard Schmitt, Laboratoire de Planetologie de Grenoble, France.
 
   
   
 
Last update: 14 May 2008
 
 


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