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Journal Article
Present-Day Impact Cratering Rate and Contemporary Gully Activity on Mars
2006
Overview
The Mars Global Surveyor Mars Orbiter Camera has acquired data that establish the present-day impact cratering rate and document new deposits formed by downslope movement of material in mid-latitude gullies on Mars. Twenty impacts created craters 2 to 150 meters in diameter within an area of 21.5 x 10⁶ square kilometers between May 1999 and March 2006. The values predicted by models that scale the lunar cratering rate to Mars are close to the observed rate, implying that surfaces devoid of craters are truly young and that as yet unrecognized processes of denudation must be operating. The new gully deposits, formed since August 1999, are light toned and exhibit attributes expected from emplacement aided by a fluid with the properties of liquid water: relatively long, extended, digitate distal and marginal branches, diversion around obstacles, and low relief. The observations suggest that liquid water flowed on the surface of Mars during the past decade.
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science,The American Association for the Advancement of Science
Subject
/ cameras
/ Exact sciences and technology
/ Extraterrestrial Environment
/ Fluids
/ Gullies
/ latitude
/ Liquids
/ Mars
/ Planetary, asteroid, and satellite characteristics and properties
/ Planets, their satellites and rings. Asteroids
/ ravines
/ Surface features, cratering, and topography
/ Time
/ Water
