Seasonal and secular variation of the SOLIS Lacus albedo feature: Relation to the Martian dust-transport cycle

Details Seasonal and secular variation of the SOLIS Lacus albedo feature: Relation to the Martian dust-transport cycle Seasonal and secular variation of the SOLIS Lacus albedo feature: Relation to the Martian dust-transport cycle

Apr 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985pggp.rept..290l&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Washington Repts. of Planetary Geol. and Geophys. Program p 290-292 (SEE N85-23474 13-91)

Physics

Albedo, Annual Variations, Dust, Dust Storms, Mars (Planet), Mars Surface, Mass Transfer, Wind Effects, Wind Erosion, Deposition, Maps, Telescopes

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As documented over the course of thirty-six Martian years, dramatic seasonal and secular variations occur in albedo features in the Solis Planum region of Mars. The most striking of these is the classical dark albedo features, Solis Lacus. Solis Lacus is generally most distinct during southern spring and summer. Mariner 9 and Viking Orbiter images reveal that Solis Lacus contains and is surrounded by a conspicuous pattern of bright and dark wind streaks. A seasonal dust-transport cycle is proposed to explain these observations. During later southern spring or early summer, dust is eroded from the surface and transported from the region by local dust storms which may become a global dust storm. Removal of dust over a wide area results in the dark Solis Lacus feature. During the cessation stage of global dust-storm activity (typically mid- to late-southern summer), enhanced deposition in the lee of obstacles forms the prominent patterns of bright streaks observed within and around Solis Lacus. As the year progresses (southern fall and winter), sedimentation from the atmospheric dust load occurs over the entire region, decreasing the contrast of the albedo features to their surroundings. Dust-storm activity the following year renews the cycle by again removing dust from the region.

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