to establish the the likelihood of near-polar geysering on Mars?
Of course amateur observers were pointing out the phenomenon years ago and suggesting possible mechanisms, including CO2 sublimation, outgassing, and explosive release of subsurface volatiles; many professionals in the field pish-tushed any notion of "geysers," "spiders," or any other active process on Mars -- except wind. Only the wind. The default paradigm of Mars is still dead.
If there is an active CO2 process at and under the near surface of Mars, might there also be an active H2O process? Of course there could be. Many signs indicate there probably are such processes.
But unless and until people go to Mars, or sufficiently sophisticated robots are sent to Mars to find out, we will never know.
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Interesting... are there a sufficient number of papers
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