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, 5 years ago→Speculation could it detect Curiosity liquid brines
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If Elysia Planitium has salts below the surface that can take up water from the atmosphere it might have similar brines too, and if so, perhaps the mole could notice the brines as a more heat conductive layer just below the surface as it starts to drill? Especially if the conductivity varied and was highest in the early morning, it might be the Curiosity brines. Just an idea.
If this is a possibility there might be a case for drilling very slowly down through the first 15 cms and releasing frequent pulses of heat in order to get a very detailed thermal conductivity profile and not only that, to stay one day at each position to notice how the thermal conductivity varies between daytime and nighttime.
For more about these brines see
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