The importance of secondary cratering to age constraints on planetary surfaces

AS McEwen, EB Bierhaus - Annu. Rev. Earth Planet. Sci., 2006 - annualreviews.org
Small craters (less than one kilometer diameter) can be primary craters produced by impact
of interplanetary debris, or they can be secondary craters produced by fallback of high …

Geologic history of Mars

MH Carr, JW Head III - Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 2010 - Elsevier
Mars accumulated and differentiated into crust, mantle and core within a few tens of millions
of years of Solar System formation. Formation of Hellas, which has been adopted as the …

Context camera investigation on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

MC Malin, JF Bell III, BA Cantor… - Journal of …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
The Context Camera (CTX) on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a Facility
Instrument (ie, government‐furnished equipment operated by a science team not …

Bedform migration on Mars: Current results and future plans

N Bridges, P Geissler, S Silvestro, M Banks - Aeolian Research, 2013 - Elsevier
With the advent of high resolution imaging, bedform motion can now be tracked on the
Martian surface. HiRISE data, with a pixel scale as fine as 25cm, shows displacements of …

Martian dunes indicative of wind regime shift in line with end of ice age

J Liu, X Qin, X Ren, X Wang, Y Sun, X Zeng, H Wu… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Orbital observations suggest that Mars underwent a recent 'ice age'(roughly 0.4–2.1 million
years ago), during which a latitude-dependent ice-dust mantle (LDM), was emplaced. A …

The rayed crater Zunil and interpretations of small impact craters on Mars

AS McEwen, BS Preblich, EP Turtle, NA Artemieva… - Icarus, 2005 - Elsevier
A 10-km diameter crater named Zunil in the Cerberus Plains of Mars created∼ 107
secondary craters 10 to 200 m in diameter. Many of these secondary craters are …

Thermal contraction crack polygons on Mars: Classification, distribution, and climate implications from HiRISE observations

J Levy, J Head, D Marchant - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Documenting the morphology and distribution of polygonally patterned ground on Mars is
critical for understanding the age and origin of the Martian latitude‐dependent mantle …

Transverse aeolian ridges (TARs) on Mars

M Balme, DC Berman, MC Bourke, JR Zimbelman - Geomorphology, 2008 - Elsevier
Aeolian processes are probably the dominant ongoing surface process on Mars; Large Dark
Dunes (LDDs), particularly common aeolian landforms, were first recognized in the early …

Thermal model for analysis of Mars infrared mapping

HH Kieffer - Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The KRC numerical thermal model has been used in the analysis of observations from
virtually all Mars missions with infrared sensors and for the selection of virtually all Mars' …

Volcanic outgassing of CO2 and H2O on Mars

M Grott, A Morschhauser, D Breuer, E Hauber - Earth and Planetary …, 2011 - Elsevier
Volcanic outgassing is one of the main sources of volatiles for the martian atmosphere and
degassing of the martian interior potentially influenced the early martian climate. Using a …