Transformation of polar ice sublimate residue into Martian circumpolar sand

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Apr 1985

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985pggp.rept..300s&link_type=abstract

In NASA, Washington Repts. of Planetary Geol. and Geophys. Program p 300-302 (SEE N85-23474 13-91)

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Dust, Ice, Landforms, Mars (Planet), Mars Surface, Residues, Sands, Deposition, Environment Simulation, Mass Transfer, Wind Effects

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The experimental demonstration that a credible Martian sand may be formed from dust-bearing ice provides a new set of possible explanations for some of the observed Martian aeolian landforms. It is hypothesized that a light-weight fluffy rind is formed on the polar caps. This could provide material easily entrainable by Martian winds, which generally blow equatorward from the poles. These winds would peel the fluffy rind from the surface of the sublimating summer polar caps and from the equatorward slopes of the polar troughs. These pieces of material would then be rolled into lumps (of high sailarea/mass ratio) by the wind. They would become pigmented as they saltate across the surface, perhaps gathering carbonaceous meteoritic dust or other impurities on their surfaces, or through chemical reactions with the ice-free environment away from their point of origin. Once they became trapped in topographic wind shadows, they would form dune structures because they are hydraulically equivalent to sand particles.

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