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The aeolian Solar System

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A unified theory of particle transport by wind can explain the observations of aeolian features, like dunes, across the Solar System rocky bodies with atmospheres.

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Fig. 1: Aeolian forms on Earth and Mars.

NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS (a); photo, Hezi Yizhaq (b); NASA/JPL/University of Arizona (c) imagery courtesy of Google Earth, copyright Maxar Technologies (d).

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  1. Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics, Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel

    Hezi Yizhaq

  2. Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Osservatorio di Capodimonte, Napoli, Italy

    Simone Silvestro

  3. Carl Sagan Center, SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, USA

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