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Streaks on martian slopes are dry

The global, geostatistical analysis of half a million albedo features - so-called slope streaks - suggests that modern Mars’ slopes do not commonly experience transient flows of water or brines.

Valentin Tertius Bickel
Adomas Valantinas
ResearchOpen Access19 May 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-16
Detection of ferrihydrite in Martian red dust records ancient cold and wet conditions on Mars

Mars’ distinctive red colour attributed to ferrihydrite, a type of rust mineral. This finding suggests Mars experienced a cold and wet environment before transitioning to its current desert state.

Adomas Valantinas
John F. Mustard
Nicolas Thomas
ResearchOpen Access25 Feb 2025
Nature Communications

Volume: 16, P: 1-16
Evidence for transient morning water frost deposits on the Tharsis volcanoes of Mars

High-resolution spacecraft imagery has revealed transient deposits that appear in the early mornings of cold seasons at the high altitudes of the Tharsis volcanoes on Mars, consistent with water frost of atmospheric origin.

A. Valantinas
N. Thomas
G. Cremonese
ResearchOpen Access10 Jun 2024
Nature Geoscience

Volume: 17, P: 608-616