Behavior of Windblown Sand on Mars: Results From Single-Particle Experiments

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Mar 1996

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Lunar and Planetary Science, volume 27, page 813

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Aeolian, Mars, Particles: Attrition, Reptation, Saltation

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Experiments are investigating the behavior of individual sand grains in the high-energy martian aeolian regime. Energy partitioning during impact of a saltating grain determines grain longevity, but it also influences the way in which the bed becomes mobilized by reptation. When single grains of sand are fired into loose beds, the bed can absorb up to 90% of the impact energy by momentum transfer to other grains; it has been discovered that the impacting grains cause circular craters even at low impact angles. Hundreds of grains can be splashed by a single high-velocity (100 m/s) impact causing more bed disturbance through reptation than previously thought. The research is supported by NASA's PG & G Program.

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