Talk:Blue Mars

A few things:


 * 1) For a crater that large there would be a huge plume of ejecta that would launch out into space.  I don't know that Olympus Mons would be totally destroyed, but it would probably look a lot like Mt. St. Helens does now, forming a huge crescent.  Remember just how big Olympus Mons is.
 * 2) A violent strike of that nature would reverberate through the core of Mars, cracking the other side of Mars.  A real-life example of this would be Herschel Crater, found on Saturn's moon Mimas.
 * 3) From what can be told, based on current research the South Pole Cap is more dry ice than ice.  Remember that Mars is essentially sloping downhill from the South Pole toward the North Pole, with ice getting depositing in the North, dry ice in the South.
 * 4) The vulcanism that that this sort of strike would produce would be quite large, both at the site of the strike and on the opposite side of Mars.
 * 5) Such a strike could have effects on Mars' orbit and on its day length, too.

Hopefully this helps you as you continue this interesting timeline. Louisiannan 16:11, 3 March 2009 (UTC)