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• Areomorphology
  *[[Wind erosion]] *[[Water|Water erosion]]
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• Roads
  ...mps, so the surface should be quite solid, with the exception on dunes and wind transported sand. Rock breaking equipment, combined with crushers and grad ...embedded in the roadbed, may last a long time on Mars, due to the lack of erosion.
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• Zhurong
  ...his duricrust was created just under the surface,and then was uncovered by erosion. ...caps show a change.<ref>Liu, J., et al. 2023. Martian dunes indicative of wind regime shift in line with end of ice age. Nature</ref>
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• Noctis Labyrinthus
  ...ny places, however, the layers are seen to consist of fine particles. The wind often carries these small particles away in time. The fine particles are i ...ardened by the action of groundwater, and thereby become more resistant to erosion. Martian ground water may have traveled hundreds of kilometers, and in the
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• Medusae Fossae
  ...weakly cemented particles, and was most likely formed by the deposition of wind-blown dust or volcanic ash. Layers are seen in parts of the formation. ...parallel nature is thought to be caused by the direction of the prevailing wind.<ref>name="hiroc.lpl.arizona.edu"</ref>
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• Sinus Sabaeus quadrangle
  Rock can form layers in a variety of ways. Volcanoes, wind, or water can produce layers.<ref>http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu?PSP_008437_ Image:Wislicenus Crater Floor.JPG|Wislicenus Crater Floor, as seen by HiRISE. Erosion on floor has made layers visible.
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• Aluminum
  ...</sub> – CaAl₂Si₂O₈). Erosion, either by wind or water, can separate out the alumina (Al₂O₃), possi
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• Crew 192 Journalism Reports
  ...rew, as we ride out what is hopefully the end of a ~3-day streak of strong wind storms. We’ve been keeping busy with repairs around the hab, games and mo Especially now since a crazy wind storm has been raging for the last couple of hours. A couple of the crew we
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• Sublimation landscapes on Mars
  ...long the surface. Any dust remaining will eventually be blown away by the wind. The resulting surface will then display various low spots, cracks, and ca ...enter|Spiders indicated with arrows. The plume on the right was caused by wind blowing from the bottom to the top of the image.]]
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• Iapygia quadrangle
  ...hard and resistant to erosion; thus they are left standing as a wall after erosion has removed the softer ground around them. Some dikes on earth are associa ...2006. Breccia dikes and crater-related faults in impact craters on Mars: Erosion and exposure on the floor of a crater 75 km in diameter at the dichotomy bo
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• Amazonis quadrangle
  ...ology of Mars. SEPM</ref> and was most likely formed by the deposition of wind-blown dust or volcanic ash. Using a global climate model, a group of resear ...estal Craters, A Tool For Interpreting Geological Histories and Estimating Erosion Rates''. LPSC</ref> <ref>http://themis.asu.edu/feature/8</ref>
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• Arabia quadrangle
  ...eposits in northeast Arabia Terra, Mars: Noachian-Hesperian sedimentation, erosion, and terrain inversion | journal = Journal of Geophysical Research | volume ...osits were protected. Today, we see layers where they were protected from erosion.
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• Fretted terrain
  ...18 at a Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Texas suggested that the erosion that formed fretted terrain was aided by water moving under the surface.<r
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• Mare Tyrrhenum quadrangle
  ...esent. The floors of many craters have dunes. Dunes form in them because wind on Mars is not strong enough to lift sand grains all the way out of a crate ...nding ground erodes. Deposits formed in this manner are more resistant to erosion.
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• Layers on Mars
  ...yers that once covered wide regions. They often owe their existence to an erosion-resistant top layer. Sometimes it is from a layer of hard lava that covere ...water in Martian history since they need water to form. Based on albedo, erosion patterns, physical characteristics, and composition, researchers have class
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• Syrtis Major quadrangle
  ...hen they cool, walls of hard rock may be formed after being exposed by the erosion of softer, surrounding materials. Such a feature is termed a dike. They are ...ch Letters'': 40, 245-249.</ref> The ridges are found where there has been erosion.<ref>Pascuzzo, A., et al. 2019. The formation of irregular polygonal ridg
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• The beauty of Mars from 150 miles
  ...ause, but a popular idea is that minerals were deposited in cracks. Later, erosion removed the soft material around them. There is some evidence that clays ar ...ncient crust". ''Geophysical Research Letters'': 40, 245-249.</ref> Later, erosion removed the soft material around them. There is some evidence that clays ar
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• Memnonia quadrangle
  ...ys including a large river system called Mangala Vallis. There are also wind-eroded deposits and lava flows from the large volcanic region called Tharsi ...of Columbus Crater. These rocks could have been deposited by water or by wind. But, there is evidence that it was water since hydrated minerals were fo
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• Noachis quadrangle
  ...Shadows show the overhang. Some of the layers are much more resistant to erosion, so they stick out. Image from HiRISE. ...chis.JPG|Crater that was buried in another age and is now being exposed by erosion, as seen by the [[Mars Global Surveyor]], under the MOC Public Targeting Pr
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• Mare Australe quadrangle
  ...logical analysis and diffusion-limited aggregation model for polar surface erosion Icarus. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2019.02.032</ref> These features ...ons of gas sublimation-driven activity in Mars' southern polar regions: I. Erosion of the surface | journal= Icarus | volume= 205 | issue= 1 |pages= 283–29
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