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Dirty Ice or Icy Dirt?. Soil Moisture Saturation UNDER-SATURATED Not enough water to fill all of the pore space of a given soil SATURATED Just the right.

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1 Dirty Ice or Icy Dirt?

2 Soil Moisture Saturation UNDER-SATURATED Not enough water to fill all of the pore space of a given soil SATURATED Just the right amount of water to fill all of the pore space of a given soil OVER-SATURATED More water than can fit in the pore space of a given soil

3 Saturated?

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5 What is the maximum water weight % that typical dirt on Earth can hold? Design your own experiment!

6 Water Estimates on Earth

7 Guess water weight % for each of these environments Dry Valley, Antarctica Canadian Permafrost Antarctic Glacier

8 Approximate water weight % for each of these environments Dry Valley, Antarctica Canadian Permafrost Antarctic Glacier ~100 % ~25 % ~1 %

9 Water Estimates on Mars

10 Frostfree Map of Water at Top Meter of Mars A B

11 Visible Map of Mars Surface A B


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