Martian dust devils: Laboratory simulations of particle threshold

By Ronald Greeley, M. Balme, J. Iversen, S. Metzger, R. Mickelson, J. Phoreman, B. White. 2003

166 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Earth-Surface Processes, Ocean Engineering

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. Michael D. Smith
2. Philip R. Christensen
3. Robin L. Fergason
4. Ronald Greeley
5. M. Balme
6. Hugh H. Kieffer
7. Mark T. Lemmon
8. R. Arvidson

In Earth-Surface Processes

1. Ronald Greeley
2. M. Balme
3. Mark T. Lemmon
4. Michael C. Malin
5. J. Kok
6. Eric J. R. Parteli
7. T. Michaels
8. D. Karam

In Ocean Engineering

1. J. Kok
2. Eric J. R. Parteli
3. T. Michaels
4. D. Karam
5. Sina Haeri

Citations in the corpus

• Active dust devils in Gusev crater, Mars: Observations from the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit (2006, background): “These dust devils occurred during a relatively calm period on Mars (Ls = 143), when maximum surface winds were no more than about � 10 m/s [Schofield et al., 1997], far less than boundary-layer threshold for the movement of sand and dust, and strongly suggesting that dust devils are an effective mec”
• Convective vortices and dust devils at the Phoenix Mars mission landing site (2010, background): “These are all wind speeds that are well below the general Martian dust‐lifting threshold [Greeley and Iversen, 1985; Greeley et al., 2003] which indicates that the dust devil induced dust lifting is not only caused by the force from the tangential winds.”
• High-resolution thermal inertia derived from the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS): Thermal model and applications (2006, background): “…1975; Veverka et al., 1977; Thomas and Veverka, 11101979; Thomas et al., 1981], dust devil activity [e.g., Thomas 1111and Gierasch, 1985; Greeley et al., 2003; Fisher et al., 11122005], and the movement of sand-sized particles at the 1113MER-Spirit landing site in Gusev Crater [e.g.,…”
• The physics of wind-blown sand and dust (2012, background): “In addition to the Saffman lift force, some experiments suggest that a lift force due to the pressure deficit at the core of dust devils and other vortices might aid in lifting particles (Greeley et al 2003, Neakrase and Greeley 2010a) (see section 5.3.2).”
• Dust devils on Earth and Mars (2006, methodology): “[50] Laboratory modeling of dust lifting using a vortex generator apparatus has been extended to Martian surface pressures [Greeley et al., 2003].”