Mars and its Canals

Illusions O.f Vision and the Canals of Mars by Professor

ESA's Mars Express Mission – Europe on Its Way to Mars

Introduction In the broad context of planetary science, Mars represents an important transition between the outer volatile-rich, more oxidised regions of the accretion zone of the terrestrial bodies (asteroid belt) and the inner, more refractory and less oxidised regions from which Earth, Venus and Mercury accreted. Its size, the degree of internal activity, the age of its surface features, and...

A Dynamical System: Mars and its Satellite

A description of the most accurate analytical theory of the motion of Phobos, so far constructed, is presented. Several elements of the gravitational field of Mars, gravitational interactions between Phobos and Mars, Deimos and Jupiter, as well as tidal effects due to the interaction between the Sun and Mars, never considered before, have been taken into account. The theory is based on the mode...

Canals Beyond Mars: Beam Depolarization in Radio Continuum Maps of the warm ISM

Multi-frequency radio polarimetric observations of the diffuse Galactic synchrotron background enable us to study the structure of the diffuse ionized gas via rotation measure maps. However, depolarization will introduce artifacts in the resulting rotation measure, most notably in the form of narrow, elongated “depolarization canals”. We use numerical models of a non-emitting Faraday rotating m...

Ancient volcanism and its implication for thermal evolution of Mars