Dark surface features previously considered evidence of subsurface water flow on Mars have now been interpreted as being the result of dry, granular flows according to a new Nature Geoscience paper.

If you went to Mars and took a closer look at some of the planet’s steepest slopes, then you would probably come across surface features known as recurrent slope lineae (or RSL for short). Image ...

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Decades-old mathematics might finally explain some features of the 'oddballs' of matter: granular materials that sometimes behave like a solid, and at other times flow like a liquid. Strange as it ...

Dark features on Mars previously considered evidence for subsurface flowing of water are interpreted by new research as granular flows, where grains of sand and dust slip downhill to make dark streaks ...