Astronomy:Briault (crater)
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Short description: Crater on Mars

Briault crater, as seen by CTX camera (on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). mage:Kinkora Crater Rim. Some of these dunes are Barchans.
Briault is an impact crater in the Mare Tyrrhenum quadrangle of Mars, located at 10.2°S latitude and 270.4°W longitude. It is 96.6 kilometers in diameter and was named after P. Briault, and the name was approved in 1973 by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN).[1] The dark areas seen in the images are dunes; the curved dunes are called barchans.
See also
- Barchan
- Climate of Mars
- Geology of Mars
- Impact crater
- Impact event
- List of craters on Mars
- Ore resources on Mars
- Planetary nomenclature
References
Recommended reading
- Lorenz, R. 2014. The Dune Whisperers. The Planetary Report: 34, 1, 8-14
- Lorenz, R., J. Zimbelman. 2014. Dune Worlds: How Windblown Sand Shapes Planetary Landscapes. Springer Praxis Books / Geophysical Sciences.
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