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Comparing the rivers of Earth, Mars, and Titan

Planetary Radio: Space Exploration, Astronomy and Science

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The Difference Between Bed Load and Suspend Loader on Earth

On Earth, you have gravel rivers and then you have sand rivers. It's a very consistent pattern that it goes from gravel to sand quite quickly. On Mars and Titan, we use the terminology bed load and suspended load because gravel on Titan is not exactly the same size as gravel on Earth. Because gravel technically is not gravel on Titan, because the sediment will be bigger for equal flow because it's more buoyant.

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