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Zack Burton ’14 Coauthors Paper on an Enduring Mars Enigma – Bowdoin News

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Zach Burton in the lab with collaborator Merve Yesilbas, where they performed experiments for the Mars study. 
The biggest clues for the team that Mars might contain secret stores of briny water were these mysterious landslides that have been observed from afar on the planet’s arid surface. 
Scientists have long been puzzled by this seasonal phenomenon, known as recurring slope lineae, or RSL, which is most common on sun-facing slopes in the equatorial zone of the red planet. Some have suggested…

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