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  Information - GM8 Comparing and contrasting planetary landscapes and surface processes (co-listed in PS)

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Recent spacecraft missions are providing exciting new insights into surface processes and landscape evolution on other terrestrial planets. New imagery coupled with detailed topographic data and ground truth results from rovers are giving us high-resolution information about landforms, sedimentary deposits, and surface processes on extra-terrestrial bodies. Exciting new developments from Mars include geomorphic evidence for precipitation and recent fluvial activity, extensive glaciation, and the past presence of extensive water bodies. Evidence from sedimentary bodies such as deltas and river channel forms hint at long-lived water flows. Moreover, the wealth of new data also provides data with which to better constrain currently active surface processes such as wind action.

Enormous research potential exists at the interface of geomorphology and planetary sciences, and in particular at the comparison between surface systems on earth with those on other planetary bodies. This is because landscapes on other planets represent geomorphic experiments conducted under different environmental conditions. For example, because geomorphic processes and landforms are strongly coupled to climate, there is considerable potential to learn about climate change on planetary bodies.

In this session, we wish to bring together researchers from both the planetary science and the geomorphic and sedimentary process communities to create a broad interdisciplinary forum for discussion of planetary landscapes. We seek contributions that investigate questions related to modes and rates of surface processes, spatial and temporal patterns of landscape evolution, and the coupling between tectonics and climate change and landscape evolution. Contributions that address the interactions between surface process systems are particularly welcomed. We also invite papers that address technical aspects of imaging and measurement of geomorphic processes and features, in particular where techniques used in terrestrial geomorphology can be applied to planetary studies.

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