Karst landforms Within Noctis Labyrinthus, Mars

Modelling cockpit karst landforms

The purpose of this article is to present a model of the formation processes of cockpit karst landscapes. The CHILD software was used to simulate landscape evolution including dissolution processes of carbonate rocks. After examining briefly how the CHILD model operates, two applications of this model involving dissolution of carbonate rocks are presented. The simulated landscapes are compared ...

Assessment of Karst Landform Potential on Mars

Distribution, Morphology and Structural Associations of Martian Pit Crater

Introduction: Pit craters are circular to elliptical collapse features that commonly occur in alignments (chains) and that coalesce into troughs [1], [2], [3], [4], [5]. We have begun systematically mapping the regional distribution of pit chains in the western hemisphere of Mars using the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) data. Pit chains are most prominent in the Alba Patera region and along the Vall...

Mars: Review an D Analysis of Volcanic Eruption Theory and Relationships to Observed Landforms

We present a theoretical treatment of the ascent, emplacement, and eruption of magma on Mars. Because of the lower gravity, fluid convective motions and crystal settling processes driven by positive and negative buoyancy forces, as well as overall diapiric ascent rates, will be slower on Mars than on Earth, permitting larger diapirs to ascend to shallower depths. This factor also favors a syste...

Classification Using Graph-based Class Decomposition for the Identification of Mars Landforms

We propose a new learning technique that combines local models to capture different patterns during learning. Local patterns emerge through a decomposition of classes into clusters; our technique points to a new form of class decomposition that maps a cluster distribution into a 2-dimensional map that can be represented as a graph. The graph is then partitioned into sets of nodes (clusters) tha...