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Member Since 2006
Edwin S. Kite
Associate Professor , University of Chicago
Professional Experience
University of Chicago
Associate Professor
2015 - Present
University of Chicago
Assistant Professor
Education
Doctorate
2011
Honors & Awards
Publications
Why Are Mountaintops Cold? The Transition of Surface Lapse Rate on Dry Planets
Understanding surface temperature is important for habitability. Recent work on Mars has found that the dependence of surface temperature on elevat...
November 28, 2023
High and Dry: Billion‐Year Trends in the Aridity of River‐Fo...
December 21, 2022
Limits on Runoff Episode Duration for Early Mars: Integratin...
August 05, 2021
AGU Abstracts
Metal Enrichment of Wave-Rippled Sediments on Ancient Mars
A TALE OF TWO ROVERS: EXPLORING THE MARTIAN SEDIMENTARY ROCK RECORD WITH THE CURIOSITY AND PERSEVERANCE ROVERS I POSTER
planetary sciences | 14 december 2023
Edwin S. Kite, Patrick J. Gasda, Lucy M. Thompson,...
The Curiosity rover is ascending a sedimentary-rock mountain, Mount Sharp, testing hypotheses about how and why Mars' surface dried out. Within the pa...
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Prediction of fracture orientations on Mars
TITAN AND MARS BONUS ROUND ORAL
planetary sciences | 14 december 2023
Wen Bo, Edwin S. Kite
Mineralized fractures observed at multiple landing sites on Mars can form via desiccation cracks or natural hydraulic fractures, each generating uniqu...
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Curiosity meets the Gediz Vallis Ridge: a remnant of a late-stage debris-flow dominated fan
A TALE OF TWO ROVERS: EXPLORING THE MARTIAN SEDIMENTARY ROCK RECORD WITH THE CURIOSITY AND PERSEVERANCE ROVERS II ORAL
planetary sciences | 14 december 2023
Alexander B. Bryk, William E. Dietrich, Stephane L...
Recent studies using HiRISE and CTX imagery show that fan-shaped deposits are widespread across Mars and likely formed during the Hesperian and Amazon...
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