Color changes at the Viking landing sites over the course of a Mars year

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Dec 1979

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979jgr....84.8355g&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 84, Dec. 30, 1979, p. 8355-8364.

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Color, Mars Landing, Mars Surface, Viking Lander Spacecraft, Dust Storms, Mars Photographs

Scientific paper

Color changes at the Viking landing sites over the past Mars year are examined. Both sites exhibited an increased red to blue ratio of the soil due to the accumulation of a thin layer of bright red dust from the two global dust storms. The generation of bright areas on Mars and the formation of dark areas by stripping of bright dust layers are explained by the lander observations before the dust storm activity which show isolated bright red drifts which may be regions where material deposited during previous storms was protected from wind erosion.

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