According to the authors of the study, who
used geological observations made using the THEMIS instrument on board the Mars Odyssey spacecraft, laboratory impact experiments and computer modeling of impact processes, large crater - forming impacts would have created tornado - like wind vortices that reached speeds of up to 500 miles per hour.
Using geological observation, laboratory impact experiments and computer modeling, Schultz and Brown graduate student Stephanie Quintana have offered a new explanation for how those streaks were formed.
Not exact matches
During the three survey voyages, KOBEC carried out detailed underwater
geological surveys, seismic reflection,
observations by underwater robots, samples and analysis of rocks, and
observations using underwater seismographs and electromagnetometers.
The team measured glacier area change from 1986 to 2014
using satellite images from Landsat, the U.S.
Geological Survey's and NASA's Earth
observation programme.
To get their results the researchers
used sophisticated ice sheet and climate models and verified their results with independent
geological observations from the oceans off Antarctica.
This week in the journal Nature, Csatho writes a «News and Views» analysis that comments on the latest research in this area: A new study in Nature by Kristian K. Kjeldsen, Niels J. Korsgaard, Kurt H. Kjær and colleagues, who
used aerial photographs, remote - sensing
observations and
geological evidence to estimate the Greenland Ice Sheet's mass loss during three time periods since the start of the 20th century: 1900 - 83, 1983 to 2003 and 2003 - 10.