Persistence of intense, climate-driven runoff late in Mars history
dc.contributor.author | Kite, ES | |
dc.contributor.author | Mayer, DP | |
dc.contributor.author | Wilson, SA | |
dc.contributor.author | Lucas, AS | |
dc.contributor.author | Stucky de Quay, G | |
dc.contributor.author | Davis, Joel | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-04-01T11:37:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-04-01T11:37:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 27/03/2019 | |
dc.date.submitted | 2019-04-20 | |
dc.identifier.citation | E. 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.doi | 10.1126/sciadv.aav7710 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10141/622673 | |
dc.description.abstract | Mars 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.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | American Association for the Advancement of Science | en_US |
dc.relation.uri | https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/3/eaav7710/tab-pdf | en_US |
dc.rights | openAccess | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | |
dc.title | Persistence of intense, climate-driven runoff late in Mars history | en_US |
dc.type | Journal Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2375-2548 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Science Advances | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 5 | en_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.embargo | Not known | en_US |
elements.import.author | Kite, ES | en_US |
elements.import.author | Mayer, DP | en_US |
elements.import.author | Wilson, SA | en_US |
elements.import.author | Davis, J | en_US |
elements.import.author | Lucas, AS | en_US |
elements.import.author | Stucky de Quay, G | en_US |
dc.description.nhm | Copyright © 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.nhm | NHM Repository | |
dc.subject.nhm | paleo-rivers | en_US |
dc.subject.nhm | Mars | en_US |
dc.subject.nhm | planetary climate evolution | en_US |
dc.subject.nhm | river runoff | en_US |
refterms.dateFOA | 2020-04-01T11:37:58Z |