The physics of sediment transport initiation, cessation, and entrainment across aeolian and fluvial environments

T Pähtz, AH Clark, M Valyrakis… - Reviews of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Predicting the morphodynamics of sedimentary landscapes due to fluvial and aeolian flows
requires answering the following questions: Is the flow strong enough to initiate sediment …

Modern Mars' geomorphological activity, driven by wind, frost, and gravity

S Diniega, AM Bramson, B Buratti, P Buhler, DM Burr… - Geomorphology, 2021 - Elsevier
Extensive evidence of landform-scale martian geomorphic changes has been acquired in
the last decade, and the number and range of examples of surface activity have increased …

Evolved gas analyses of sedimentary rocks and eolian sediment in Gale Crater, Mars: Results of the Curiosity rover's sample analysis at Mars instrument from …

B Sutter, AC Mcadam, PR Mahaffy… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The sample analysis at Mars instrument evolved gas analyzer (SAM‐EGA) has detected
evolved water, H2, SO2, H2S, NO, CO2, CO, O2, and HCl from two eolian sediments and …

Ancient Martian aeolian processes and palaeomorphology reconstructed from the Stimson formation on the lower slope of Aeolis Mons, Gale crater, Mars

SG Banham, S Gupta, DM Rubin, JA Watkins… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Reconstruction of the palaeoenvironmental context of Martian sedimentary rocks is central to
studies of ancient Martian habitability and regional palaeoclimate history. This paper reports …

Large wind ripples on Mars: A record of atmospheric evolution

MGA Lapotre, RC Ewing, MP Lamb, WW Fischer… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Wind blowing over sand on Earth produces decimeter-wavelength ripples and hundred-
meter–to kilometer-wavelength dunes: bedforms of two distinct size modes. Observations …

The stratigraphy and evolution of lower Mount Sharp from spectral, morphological, and thermophysical orbital data sets

AA Fraeman, BL Ehlmann, RE Arvidson… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We have developed a refined geologic map and stratigraphy for lower Mount Sharp using
coordinated analyses of new spectral, thermophysical, and morphologic orbital data …

Mineralogy of an active eolian sediment from the Namib dune, Gale crater, Mars

CN Achilles, RT Downs, DW Ming… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, is using a comprehensive scientific
payload to explore rocks and soils in Gale crater, Mars. Recent investigations of the Bagnold …

Winds measured by the Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) during the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover's Bagnold Dunes Campaign and …

CE Newman, J Gómez-Elvira, M Marin, S Navarro… - Icarus, 2017 - Elsevier
A high density of REMS wind measurements were collected in three science investigations
during MSL's Bagnold Dunes Campaign, which took place over∼ 80 sols around southern …

Chemistry, mineralogy, and grain properties at Namib and High dunes, Bagnold dune field, Gale crater, Mars: A synthesis of Curiosity rover observations

BL Ehlmann, KS Edgett, B Sutter… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover performed coordinated measurements
to examine the textures and compositions of aeolian sands in the active Bagnold dune field …

A broad continuum of aeolian impact ripple morphologies on Mars is enabled by low wind dynamic pressures

R Sullivan, JF Kok, I Katra… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aeolian ripples are common in sandy environments on Earth and Mars. On Earth, ripples in
sorted dune sands typically are< 1 cm high and are erased in high winds. On Mars in similar …