 NEWTON, Ask A Scientist! Name: Candie Status: other Grade:
other Location: NC Country: N/A Date: 3/24/2005  Can hurricanes
form on frozen water and if so, I heard they found water on mars
so does mars have hurricanes too?   Hurricanes depend on the
evaporation of water from a warm ocean surface, so a hurricane
could not form over frozen water.  Mars may have water on (or
in) it. However, the surface is basically dry with very little
(if any) water available. You need a very large, warm, open
ocean and the right dynamic conditions to produce a hurricane,
so hurricanes as we know them are not possible on Mars. However,
there clearly are storms (dry, dusty ones) on Mars, which are
apparently produced by strong horizontal gradients of
temperature, just as on Earth.  David R. Cook Atmospheric
Physics and Chemistry Section Environmental Research Division
Argonne National Laboratory  Hurricanes are large storms that
form and are "fed" by the convection of warm wet air into cooler
air at higher altitudes. This colde