Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

A distinct ripple-formation regime on Mars revealed by the morphometrics of barchan dunes

  • Lior Rubanenko,
  • Mathieu G. A. Lapôtre,
  • Ryan C. Ewing,
  • Lori K. Fenton,
  • Andrew Gunn

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34974-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Dust storms on Mars drive water escape to space. Here, the authors show the impact Martian dust storms have on the abundance of atmospheric hydrogen and oxygen, and how this helps to overall oxidize the Martian atmosphere.