Conceptions of thickness of frost rock and cryolithosphere of Mars were considered by R.Kuzmin (Kuzmin
1983), M. Krass and V.Merzlikin (Krass & Merzlikin 1990), S.M.Clifford and T.J.Parker (Clifford & Parker 2001).
Mostly the evaluations of martian cryolithosphere thickness were carried out on the base of model of stable temperature
field. The thickness of frost rock massive Hm was found by the profile of stationary distribution of temperature with the
depth for one and two-layer lithological model. We input average annual temperature of surface, temperature of phase
change of H20 and temperature of heat transfer and value of heat flux to the lower boarder of permafrost. The difference
was in the choosing of parameters: average values of heat conductivity coefficient of upper layers, values of heat flux
from inside, average temperature of surface, profile model.
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Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology XII
4 August 2009 | San Diego, California, United States
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