Ryan Ewing, assistant professor of geology and geophysics at Texas A&M, said these timescales suggest that Titan's dune-covered landscapes might be changing as Saturn's orbit changes over tens of thousands of years and this is somewhat similar to how some of Earth's sandy deserts have evolved.
Date: Dec 10, 2014
Category: Sci/Tech
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Giant dunes on Saturn's moon Titan sculpted by rogue winds
"This is somewhat similar to how some of Earth's sandy deserts have evolved," Ryan Ewing, assistant professor of geology and geophysics at Texas A&M and an author on the paper, said in a statement. "In parts of the Sahara Desert, for example, some of the largest dunes are thought to have formed
Date: Dec 09, 2014
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Richard Stockton College of New Jersey - Accounting, Rutgers University - Economics