Master of Science Dissartation
Impact of sublimation coefficient of H2O, depending on admixtures, on scarp recession in cometary environment |
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Author:Supervisor:Supervising institution:Year: |
Aleksander Jasiakdr hab. Konrad KossackiWydział Geologii2018 |
Aim of the thesis is to describe effective determinants of scarp evolution in cometary environment. Scarp being analyzed is located in the Ash region, on the surface of 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko comet. Variables, which has been analyzed as important to scarp behaviour in time are: material parameters, organic admixtures of H2O ice, and illumination conditions. During the experimental and calculation work, following conclusions has been drawn: amount of organic admixtures in ice is not determinatory to the scarp built by this ice; there is a strong corelation between the illumination and sublimative erosion of the surface; cometary landscape is prone to evolving into the vertical heterogeneity (terrain roughness).