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- noun Plural form of
ventifact .
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Examples
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Many more links at the educational page Disappearing rocks: how erosion creates ventifacts.
Mars Rover ready to roll Ray Girvan 2004
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The Hoagland site Machinery found at Spirit landing site bizarrely interprets a set of unremarkable ventifacts (faceted, polished and pitted rocks typical of desert wind erosion) as "cased objects and machinery".
Mars Rover ready to roll Ray Girvan 2004
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Pictures and discussion re Martian ventifacts here from the Viking Lander and this PDF paper, Ventifacts on Mars (the latter with a nice comparison of a terrestrial wind-eroded lava with the Martian rocks 'Stimpy' and 'Souffle').
Mars Rover ready to roll Ray Girvan 2004
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Many more links at the educational page Disappearing rocks: how erosion creates ventifacts.
Archive 2004-01-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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Pictures and discussion re Martian ventifacts here from the Viking Lander and this PDF paper, Ventifacts on Mars (the latter with a nice comparison of a terrestrial wind-eroded lava with the Martian rocks 'Stimpy' and 'Souffle').
Archive 2004-01-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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The Hoagland site Machinery found at Spirit landing site bizarrely interprets a set of unremarkable ventifacts (faceted, polished and pitted rocks typical of desert wind erosion) as "cased objects and machinery".
Archive 2004-01-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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We swooped down through the rock configuration called the Labyrinth and beyond the dolerite extrusions to Bull Pass, a natural gallery of smooth ventifacts like the relics of a lost civilization.
Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996
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