Geomorphology & Planetary Geology
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A Thing of Beauty: Space Sands
NASA's Dragonfly Mission will reach Saturn's moon Titan in 2034, and planetary scientist and BYU geology professor Jani Radebaugh cannot wait to see what Dragonfly finds. Her most anticipated find? A handful of sand. While she waits, Radebaugh is studying the sand dunes of Earth to get a handle on the potential environment of Titan.
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Basaltic fissure types on Earth
Linear or curvilinear eruptive fissures, the surface expressions of steeply-dipping pressurized feeder dikes, are the dominant volcanic vents through which relatively low viscosity basaltic magma reaches the surface of a planet.
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