'Dust' streaks on Mars

Details 'Dust' streaks on Mars 'Dust' streaks on Mars

Oct 1984

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1984icar...60..161t&link_type=abstract

Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 60, Oct. 1984, p. 161-179.

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Astronomical Photometry, Dust Storms, Mars Surface, Planetary Mapping, Albedo, Brightness, Color, Optical Thickness, Spatial Distribution, Wind Effects, Mars, Dust, Streaks, Features, Topography, Surface, Latitude, Albedo, Color, Models, Optical Properties, Thickness, Erosion, Deposition, Sedimentology, Layers, Eolian Effects

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Global mapping and photometry of selected areas on Mars are used to investigate the nature of bright and dark wind streaks that extend from topographic obstacles. Occurrence of both bright and dark streaks is strongly latitude dependent and is only weakly correlated with surface properties such as albedo and thermal inertia. Data on the colors, albedos, and phase behavior of streaks are consistent with models of bright streaks as mosaics of plains materials and brighter, redder dust. Less than 20 percent of the ground need be covered by the optically thick dust in the brightest parts of the streaks; the amount of dust in optically thick layers could be as little as 0.001 g/sq cm. Dark streaks can be interpreted as erosional windows in a patchy dust cover. The model of dust deposition in optically thick patches is sedimentologically different from scenarios involving the deposition of ubiquitous, optically thin layers. It has the advantage that large amounts of dust can be deposited without affecting regional albedos.

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