Pervasive aeolian activity along rover Curiosity's traverse in Gale Crater, Mars

Geology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 483-486

  Silvestro, Simone ^a   Vaz, D A ^b,c   Ewing, R C ^d   Rossi, A P ^e   Fenton, L K ^a   Michaels, T I ^a   Flahaut, J ^f   Geissler, P E ^g  

^a SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^e JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^g U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEOLIAN ACTIVITIES; GROUND MEASUREMENTS; LANDING SITE; MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY; MIGRATION RATES; REGIONAL ATMOSPHERIC MODELING SYSTEMS; WIND DIRECTIONS; WIND REGIME;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; NASA;

WIND;

DUNE FIELD; EOLIAN PROCESS; MARS; PLANETARY LANDFORM; PLANETARY SURFACE; RIPPLE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WIND DIRECTION; WIND FIELD; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 84875531227     PISSN: 00917613     EISSN: 19432682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1130/G34162.1     Document Type: Article

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