Investigating Deliquescence of Mars-like Soils from the Atacama Desert and Implications for Liquid Water Near the Martian Surface

Abbey Mara Van Alstyne, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, United States, Margaret A Tolbert, University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Chemistry and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, Raina V Gough, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Katherine Primm, University of Colorado at Boulder, Chemistry and Biochemistry-CIRES, Boulder, CO, United States