July 8, 2018
It’s July, and I’ve had a busy summer so far. This is my first post in a few weeks – I’ve been out at various meetings, and last week I spent with my family on vacation. The one week of […]
May 30, 2018
There are a lot of dune fields on Mars. Over the last ten years I’ve been part of a group that’s mapped out the big dark dunes on the planet to see where they form, and to understand the sedimentary […]
May 9, 2018
Here’s a grand dune, making its stately way northward under winds blowing mainly from the south-southeast (bottom to top), with a secondary wind blowing from the southwest (lower left to upper right). There are two rippled and sharp-crested slip faces […]
April 30, 2018
Some windblown dunes on Mars are just beyond words. Take these beasts in this 0.95×0.95 km (0.59×0.59 mi) scene: These are a peculiar type of bedform called a transverse aeolian ridge, or TAR for short, with a spacing of about […]
April 23, 2018
The wind on Mars is an artist, or at least it tries really hard to be one. It flutters up and down mountains, winding along valleys, dragging its wings in the sand and building up really amazing structures that could […]
April 20, 2018
This isn’t a full blog post. Just something I saw while looking around for other things on Mars. And for once it’s (probably) not related to the wind. But it’s cool enough to share. I saw something that went “squish” […]
April 16, 2018
Over the years, many things have flowed across the surface of Mars: lava, ice, water, and wind. Two things have flowed in this image (the view is 0.75×0.6 km or 0.47×0.37 mi): Image credit: HiRISE ESP_026541_1840, NASA/JPL/Univ. of Arizona If […]
April 13, 2018
This is the 3rd (and final) entry in a blog series describing a paper I recently published with colleagues in JGR Planets. Here are links to the previous two entries: Part 1, Part 2. Wow, I didn’t think this would […]
April 12, 2018
In a previous post, I set the stage for my recently published paper in JGR Planets. A recap: we’ve got good evidence for a change in Mars’s climate. Widespread ripples in Meridiani Planum formed >200,000 years ago, last migrated westward […]