Active Mars: A dynamic world

CM Dundas, P Becerra, S Byrne… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Mars exhibits diverse surface changes at all latitudes and all seasons. Active processes
include impact cratering, aeolian sand and dust transport, a variety of slope processes …

Martian aeolian activity at the Bagnold Dunes, Gale Crater: The view from the surface and orbit

NT Bridges, R Sullivan, CE Newman… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The first in situ investigation of an active dune field on another planetary surface occurred in
2015–2016 when the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover investigated the Bagnold …

The fault in our TARs: A critical review of research paradigms for intermediate‐scale bedforms on Mars

T Gough, T Barchyn… - Earth Surface Processes …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We provide a critical review of research paradigms for classifying intermediate‐scale
aeolian bedforms on Mars and the new terminology that has emerged. The systematic …

Dingo Gap: curiosity went up a small transverse aeolian ridge and came down a megaripple

JR Zimbelman, M Foroutan - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Rover data can provide important constraints on the possible origin of wind‐related martian
features that have been termed “Transverse Aeolian Ridges”(TARs). The large aeolian …

The aeolian environment of the landing site for the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover in Oxia Planum, Mars

EA Favaro, MR Balme, JM Davis… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aeolian features at Oxia Planum—the 2023 landing site for the ExoMars Rosalind
Franklin Rover (ERFR)—are important for Mars exploration because they record information …

Wind‐driven erosion and exposure potential at Mars 2020 rover candidate‐landing sites

M Chojnacki, M Banks, A Urso - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aeolian processes have likely been the predominant geomorphic agent for most of Mars'
history and have the potential to produce relatively young exposure ages for geologic units …

Mega-ripples in Iran: A new analog for transverse aeolian ridges on Mars

M Foroutan, JR Zimbelman - Icarus, 2016 - Elsevier
A new terrestrial analog site for transverse aeolian ridges (TARs) is described in this study.
The Lut desert of Iran hosts large ripple-like aeolian bedforms, with the same horizontal …

Patterns in mobility and modification of middle‐and high‐latitude southern hemisphere dunes on Mars

ME Banks, LK Fenton, NT Bridges… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Change detection analyses of aeolian bedforms (dunes and ripples), using multitemporal
images acquired by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter High Resolution Imaging Science …

Ancient Martian aeolian sand dune deposits recorded in the stratigraphy of Valles Marineris and implications for past climates

M Chojnacki, LK Fenton, AR Weintraub… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aeolian sediment transport, deposition, and erosion have been ongoing throughout Mars's
history. This record of widespread aeolian processes is preserved in landforms and geologic …

Megaripples at Wau-an-Namus, Libya: A new analog for similar features on Mars

M Foroutan, G Steinmetz, JR Zimbelman, CR Duguay - Icarus, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Transverse Aeolian Ridges (TARs) are curious aeolian megaripples on Mars, but
there are few sites identified thus far to study as terrestrial analogs. A new terrestrial analog …