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dc.contributor.authorKite, ES
dc.contributor.authorMayer, DP
dc.contributor.authorWilson, SA
dc.contributor.authorLucas, AS
dc.contributor.authorStucky de Quay, G
dc.contributor.authorDavis, Joel
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-01T11:37:58Z
dc.date.available2020-04-01T11:37:58Z
dc.date.issued27/03/2019
dc.date.submitted2019-04-20
dc.identifier.citationE. S. Kite, D. P. Mayer, S. A. Wilson, J. M. Davis, A. S. Lucas, G. Stucky de Quay, Persistence of intense, climate-driven runoff late in Mars history. Sci. Adv. 5, eaav7710 (2019).en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1126/sciadv.aav7710
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10141/622673
dc.description.abstractMars is dry today, but numerous precipitation-fed paleo-rivers are found across the planet’s surface. These rivers’ existence is a challenge to models of planetary climate evolution. We report results indicating that, for a given catchment area, rivers on Mars were wider than rivers on Earth today. We use the scale (width and wavelength) of Mars paleo-rivers as a proxy for past runoff production. Using multiple methods, we infer that intense runoff production of >(3–20) kg/m2 per day persisted until <3 billion years (Ga) ago and probably <1 Ga ago, and was globally distributed. Therefore, the intense runoff production inferred from the results of the Mars Science Laboratory rover was not a short-lived or local anomaly. Rather, precipitation-fed runoff production was globally distributed, was intense, and persisted intermittently over >1 Ga. Our improved history of Mars’ river runoff places new constraints on the unknown mechanism that caused wet climates on Mars.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAmerican Association for the Advancement of Scienceen_US
dc.relation.urihttps://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/3/eaav7710/tab-pdfen_US
dc.rightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.titlePersistence of intense, climate-driven runoff late in Mars historyen_US
dc.typeJournal Articleen_US
dc.identifier.eissn2375-2548
dc.identifier.journalScience Advancesen_US
dc.identifier.volume5en_US
pubs.organisational-group/Natural History Museum
pubs.organisational-group/Natural History Museum/Science Group
pubs.organisational-group/Natural History Museum/Science Group/Earth Sciences
pubs.organisational-group/Natural History Museum/Science Group/Earth Sciences/Mineral and Planetary Sciences
pubs.organisational-group/Natural History Museum/Science Group/Functional groups
pubs.organisational-group/Natural History Museum/Science Group/Functional groups/Research
dc.embargoNot knownen_US
elements.import.authorKite, ESen_US
elements.import.authorMayer, DPen_US
elements.import.authorWilson, SAen_US
elements.import.authorDavis, Jen_US
elements.import.authorLucas, ASen_US
elements.import.authorStucky de Quay, Gen_US
dc.description.nhmCopyright © 2019 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license, which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited.en_US
dc.description.nhmNHM Repository
dc.subject.nhmpaleo-riversen_US
dc.subject.nhmMarsen_US
dc.subject.nhmplanetary climate evolutionen_US
dc.subject.nhmriver runoffen_US
refterms.dateFOA2020-04-01T11:37:58Z


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