Re: Q.E.D.: Clathrate Reactions on Mars
E.P. Grondine wrote: Perfectly linear trenches extending for extreme lengths and depths across differing terrain here on Earth?
Chris writes: Hum, I don't think I said anything like that. BTW, how perfectly straight is this feature? Was this image taken perpendicular to the surface? How long? How deep? Are there others around and what is the terrain around this particular feature like (outside of the area of the picture you referenced)?
BTW do you think an impactor would affect areas that wouldn't have clathrates in them? That is to say areas not affected by shock or the direct impact. Wouldn't such an obliqua strike to the Martian atmosphere be defected and not even penetrate to the surface?
--Chris Vancil