Looking for buried Mars-like ice in a Hawaiian volcano crater
- Author:
- Klein, Alice
- Title:
- Looking for buried Mars-like ice in a Hawaiian volcano crater
- Periodical:
- New Scientists
- Year:
- 2016
- Subject:
- Manua Kea Ice Mars Permafrost Woodcock, Alfred H. Puu Wekiu
- Summary:
- The author, Norbert Schorghofer (U of Hawaii), and Matthias Leopold (U of Western Australia) conducted a field study of permafrost at the Puu Wekiu crater bottom. They placed sensors - steel electrodes - to measure temperatures underground. The result shows that the subsurface ice still exists but its area and volume have shrunk substantially over the past half-century.
- Label:
- Geology
- URL:
- https://www.newscientist.com/article/2107485-mars-like-ice-rediscovered-in-hawaii-volcano-but-might-not-last/
- Date:
- September 29, 2016
- Collection:
- Periodicals