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| Title |
Athabasca Valles, Mars: A Lava-Draped Channel System
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Science, September 2007
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| DOI | 10.1126/science.1143315 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
W. L. Jaeger, L. P. Keszthelyi, A. S. McEwen, C. M. Dundas, P. S. Russell |
| Abstract |
Athabasca Valles is a young outflow channel system on Mars that may have been carved by catastrophic water floods. However, images acquired by the High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft reveal that Athabasca Valles is now entirely draped by a thin layer of solidified lava-the remnant of a once-swollen river of molten rock. The lava erupted from a fissure, inundated the channels, and drained downstream in geologically recent times. Purported ice features in Athabasca Valles and its distal basin, Cerberus Palus, are actually composed of this lava. Similar volcanic processes may have operated in other ostensibly fluvial channels, which could explain in part why the landers sent to investigate sites of ancient flooding on Mars have predominantly found lava at the surface instead. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 98 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Italy | 1 | 1% |
| Japan | 1 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 91 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 27 | 28% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 24 | 24% |
| Student > Master | 12 | 12% |
| Student > Bachelor | 8 | 8% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 7 | 7% |
| Other | 13 | 13% |
| Unknown | 7 | 7% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 59 | 60% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 14 | 14% |
| Environmental Science | 5 | 5% |
| Engineering | 2 | 2% |
| Computer Science | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 4 | 4% |
| Unknown | 12 | 12% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 23 February 2023.
All research outputs
#3,042,974
of 23,415,749 outputs
Outputs from Science
#32,682
of 78,518 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#7,483
of 71,915 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#175
of 360 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 23,415,749 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done well and is in the 86th percentile: it's in the top 25% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 78,518 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 63.1. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 57% of its peers.
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