{"title":"Seasonality of aeolian landforms on Meridiani Planum, Mars","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.icarus.2024.116325","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The wind interacts with the surface of Mars, forming aeolian landforms. The orientation of these landforms informs us about the formative wind directions. The observations of the orientation of aeolian landforms on Meridiani Planum between Mars years 26 and 38 indicated that there is a seasonality of formative wind directions in this region. The studied landforms were shaped by a predominant SE wind during summer, while during winter several wind directions played a role in their formation. Throughout the Mars year, the most formative were the NW winds. The presence of dark wind streaks oriented toward the west during winter indicates that E winds occur in this season on Meridiani Planum, as previously predicted by numerical simulations. It was also found that aeolian deflation led to complete erosion of smaller dunes, and that the relatively strong deflation was responsible for the scarcity of fine-grained ripples on Meridiani Planum. In this region, fine-grained ripples were found only in a few locations, and they were mainly small bedforms with wavelengths up to several centimeters.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":13199,"journal":{"name":"Icarus","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.5000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Icarus","FirstCategoryId":"101","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103524003853","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"物理与天体物理","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The wind interacts with the surface of Mars, forming aeolian landforms. The orientation of these landforms informs us about the formative wind directions. The observations of the orientation of aeolian landforms on Meridiani Planum between Mars years 26 and 38 indicated that there is a seasonality of formative wind directions in this region. The studied landforms were shaped by a predominant SE wind during summer, while during winter several wind directions played a role in their formation. Throughout the Mars year, the most formative were the NW winds. The presence of dark wind streaks oriented toward the west during winter indicates that E winds occur in this season on Meridiani Planum, as previously predicted by numerical simulations. It was also found that aeolian deflation led to complete erosion of smaller dunes, and that the relatively strong deflation was responsible for the scarcity of fine-grained ripples on Meridiani Planum. In this region, fine-grained ripples were found only in a few locations, and they were mainly small bedforms with wavelengths up to several centimeters.
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Icarus is devoted to the publication of original contributions in the field of Solar System studies. Manuscripts reporting the results of new research - observational, experimental, or theoretical - concerning the astronomy, geology, meteorology, physics, chemistry, biology, and other scientific aspects of our Solar System or extrasolar systems are welcome. The journal generally does not publish papers devoted exclusively to the Sun, the Earth, celestial mechanics, meteoritics, or astrophysics. Icarus does not publish papers that provide "improved" versions of Bode''s law, or other numerical relations, without a sound physical basis. Icarus does not publish meeting announcements or general notices. Reviews, historical papers, and manuscripts describing spacecraft instrumentation may be considered, but only with prior approval of the editor. An entire issue of the journal is occasionally devoted to a single subject, usually arising from a conference on the same topic. The language of publication is English. American or British usage is accepted, but not a mixture of these.