Re: Hellas Basin on Mars: Water, Liquid CO2, or both?
REB wrote:
Any water in the basin, at least near the surface, has probably boiled away into the thin atmosphere, but we will not know what is there until we send some landers.
It might be a good place to set up a base.
Alex writes:
Though the mission has been delayed until at least 2009, one of the four CNES NetLanders has baselined Hellas as a landing site.
Alex R. Blackwell
University of Hawaii