Martian Near-Surface S and Cl Brines in Fractured and Porous Regolith Could Trigger Microscale Soil Collapse and Cause Recurring Slope Lineae
Janice L Bishop1, Christian Koeberl2, Peter A J Englert3, Jonathan Toner4, Virginia Gulick1, Zachary F. M. Burton5, Everett K Gibson6 and Alfred S McEwen7, (1)SETI Institute, & NASA Ames, Mountain View, CA, United States, (2)University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, (3)Univ Hawaii Manoa, Honolulu, HI, United States, (4)University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United States, (5)Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States, (6)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (7)University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States