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Edwin S. Kite
Associate Professor , University of Chicago
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Metal Enrichment of Wave-Rippled Sediments on Ancient Mars
A TALE OF TWO ROVERS: EXPLORING THE MARTIAN SEDIMENTARY ROCK RECORD WITH THE CURIOSITY AND PERSEVERANCE ROVERS I POSTER
planetary sciences | 14 december 2023
Edwin S. Kite, Patrick J. Gasda, Lucy M. Thompson,...
The Curiosity rover is ascending a sedimentary-rock mountain, Mount Sharp, testing hypotheses about how and why Mars' surface dried out. Within the pa...
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Prediction of fracture orientations on Mars
TITAN AND MARS BONUS ROUND ORAL
planetary sciences | 14 december 2023
Wen Bo, Edwin S. Kite
Mineralized fractures observed at multiple landing sites on Mars can form via desiccation cracks or natural hydraulic fractures, each generating uniqu...
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Curiosity meets the Gediz Vallis Ridge: a remnant of a late-stage debris-flow dominated fan
A TALE OF TWO ROVERS: EXPLORING THE MARTIAN SEDIMENTARY ROCK RECORD WITH THE CURIOSITY AND PERSEVERANCE ROVERS II ORAL
planetary sciences | 14 december 2023
Alexander B. Bryk, William E. Dietrich, Stephane L...
Recent studies using HiRISE and CTX imagery show that fan-shaped deposits are widespread across Mars and likely formed during the Hesperian and Amazon...
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Rippled to Bits: Tales of Transient Lakes in a Martian Desert
SURFACE PROCESSES ACROSS THE SOLAR SYSTEM II ORAL
earth and planetary surface processes | 13 december 2023
Sanjeev Gupta, William E. Dietrich, Kevin W. Lewis...
The stratigraphy preserved within Aeolis Mons in Gale crater (Mars) shows a major transition from a 100s m thick package of phyllosilicate-bearing str...
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DISKWORLD: Modeling the Limited Sensitivity of Long-Term Planetary Habitability to Tectonic Noise
ATMOSPHERES, CLIMATE, AND POTENTIAL HABITABILITY OF ROCKY EXOPLANETS I POSTER
planetary sciences | 12 december 2023
Brandon Coy, Edwin S. Kite
Carbonate-silicate weathering feedback is thought to stabilize Earth's climate on geologic (>106 yr) timescales. If climate warms, faster mineral d...
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Why Are Mountaintops Cold? The Transition of Surface Lapse Rate on Dry Planets
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
28 november 2023
Bowen Fan, Malte Jansen, Michael Mischna, Edwin S....
Understanding surface temperature is important for habitability. Recent work on Mars has found that the dependence of surface temperature on elevat...
Prolonged Record of Hydroclimatic Changes at Antoniadi Crater, Mars
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS
08 july 2023
Abdallah Zaki, Kenneth Edgett, Maurizio Pajola, Ed...
The first billion years of Martian geologic history consisted of surface environments and landscapes dramatically different from those seen today, ...
High and Dry: Billion‐Year Trends in the Aridity of River‐Forming Climates on Mars
GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
21 december 2022
Edwin S. Kite, Axel Noblet
Mars' wet‐to‐dry transition is a major environmental catastrophe, yet the spatial pattern, tempo, and cause of drying are poorly constr...