PLEASE distinguish between fog and snow

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Nick Hoffman — 10/6/2008 3:24:10 AM (archived)

These fogs are a micron's worth of preciptable water vapour, in tiny ice cryctals, floating in the air.

They are NOT snow, and they do NOT fall to the ground.

As for any association with purported liquid water, you're stretching the ebvelope well beyond it's reasonable limits.

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Phoenix detects falling snow - Raoul - 9/29/2008 9:03:40 PM
- re: Phoenix detects falling snow - Robert Clark - 9/30/2008 3:09:50 PM
  - H2O snow is a widespread occurence on Mars. - Robert Clark - 10/5/2008 1:16:30 PM
    - PLEASE distinguish between fog and snow - Nick Hoffman - 10/6/2008 3:24:10 AM
    - re: H2O snow is a widespread occurence on Mars. - Robert Clark - 10/5/2008 2:02:55 PM
- That is cool :) (n/t) - REB - 9/29/2008 9:45:49 PM
  - I'm waitning for the "crunching" sound of a mechanical arm pressing down on the martian snow to be recorded by the MARDI microphone. ;-) (n/t) - Jacob - 9/29/2008 10:28:19 PM
    - Crunchable snow tends to cover your solar cells. (n/t) - alcaray - 9/30/2008 2:07:20 AM
      - Supposedly Phoenix will eventually be covered with 3 feet of the white stuff - Socrates II - 9/30/2008 2:41:54 AM
        
        "The White Stuff" - nick hoffman - 9/30/2008 11:31:53 AM
        
        The concept of an Earth-like "watery" Mars is dying hard, Nick (n/t) - E.P. - 10/10/2008 8:55:40 PM
        
        That's why I said the white stuff - Socrates II - 9/30/2008 1:29:28 PM
        
        Two words - Thermal cycling - Nick Hoffman - 9/30/2008 4:27:49 AM
        
        Well... - Socrates II - 9/30/2008 12:50:36 PM
- And calcium carbonate. - alcaray - 9/29/2008 9:34:31 PM
  - re: And calcium carbonate. - Robert Clark - 10/10/2008 4:56:02 PM
  - re: And calcium carbonate. - Jacob - 9/29/2008 10:24:58 PM

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