Dynamic Mars

Recent and Current Landscape Evolution of the Red Planet

476 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Dynamic Mars: Recent and Current Landscape Evolution of the Red Planet presents the latest observations, interpretations, and explanations of geological change at the surface or near-surface of this terrestrial body. These changes raise questions about a decades-old paradigm, formed largely in the aftermath of very coarse Mariner-mission imagery in the 1960s, suggesting that much of the interesting geological activity on Mars occurred deep in its past, eons ago. The book includes discussions of (1) Mars' ever-changing atmosphere and the impact of this on the planet's surface and near-surface; (2) the possible involvement of water in relatively new, if not contemporary, gully-like flows and slope streaks (i.e. recurring slope lineae); and (3) the identification of a broad suite of agents and processes (i.e. glacial, periglacial, aeolian, meteorological, volcanic, and meteoric) that are actively revising surface and near-surface landscapes, landforms, and features on a local, regional, and hemispheric scale.Highly illustrated and punctuated by data from the most recent Mars missions, Dynamic Mars is a valuable resource for all levels of research in the geological history of Mars, as well as of the three other terrestrial planets.

• Reihe: Elsevier
• ISBN: 9780128130186
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 13.08.2018
• Größe: 236 x 194 mm
• Verlag: Elsevier Inc
• Herausgegeben von: Stephen M. Clifford, Susan J. Conway, Richard J. Soare