Morphologic, Topographic, and Thermal Analysis of Slope Streaks on Mars

Details Morphologic, Topographic, and Thermal Analysis of Slope Streaks on Mars Morphologic, Topographic, and Thermal Analysis of Slope Streaks on Mars

Dec 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002agufm.p12a0364a&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2002, abstract #P12A-0364

Physics

5464 Remote Sensing, 6225 Mars

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Surfaces containing features known as slope streaks are common on Mars in regions where thermal-inertia is low and steep slopes are frequent. We have recently compiled a catalog of slope streak images and identified previously unrecognized correlations with surface properties. Building on this work, we analyze data from Mars Orbiter Camera, from Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter, and from the Thermal Emission Imaging System instrument on board Mars Odyssey, to constrain the physical properties and thermal conditions at the specific sites where slope streaks are forming. A number of proposed theories explaining the formation mechanism of slope streaks can be tested using new data, including an exciting possibility of the potential role of a water phase-transition.

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