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Della Corte, Vincenzo; Ferretti, Stefano; Piccirillo, Alice Maria; Rotundi, Alessandra; Bertini, Ivano; Cozzolino, Fabio; Ferone, Alessio; Fiscale, Stefano; Longobardo, Andrea; Inno, Laura; Ammannito, Eleonora; Sindoni, Giuseppe; Grappasonni, Chiara; Sylvest, Matthew; Patel, Manish R.; Ertel, Hanno; Millinger, Mark and Rothkaehl, Hanna (2025). Performance assessment of an innovative light and compact dust shield for DISC onboard Comet Interceptor/ESA space probes. International Journal of Impact Engineering, 195, article no. 105146.

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Roelofs, Lonneke; Conway, Susan J.; van Dam, Bas; van Eijk, Arjan; Merrison, Jonathan P.; Iversen, Jens Jacob; Sylvest, Matthew; Patel, Manish R.; Markies, Henk; van Maarseveen, Marcel; McElwaine, Jim; Kleinhans, Maarten G. and de Haas, Tjalling (2024). The Dynamics of CO₂ ‐Driven Granular Flows in Gullies on Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 129(6), article no. e2024JE008319.

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Roelofs, Lonneke; Conway, Susan J.; de Haas, Tjalling; Dundas, Colin; Lewis, Stephen R.; McElwaine, Jim; Pasquon, Kelly; Raack, Jan; Sylvest, Matthew and Patel, Manish R. (2024). How, when and where current mass flows in Martian gullies are driven by CO 2 sublimation. Communications Earth & Environment, 5, article no. 125.

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Philippe, M.; Conway, S.J.; Raack, J.; Carpy, S.; Massé, M.; Patel, M. R.; Sylvest, M. E.; Lewis, S. R. and Morino, C. (2023). Experimental study of sediment transport processes by liquid water and brine under Martian pressure. Icarus, 395, article no. 115475.

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Della Corte, V.; Ferretti, S.; Piccirillo, A. M.; Zakharov, V.; Di Paolo, F.; Rotundi, A.; Ammannito, E.; Amoroso, M.; Bertini, I.; Di Donato, P.; Ferraioli, G.; Fiscale, S.; Fulle, M.; Inno, L.; Longobardo, A.; Mazzotta-Epifani, E.; Muscari Tomajoli, M. T.; Sindoni, G.; Tonietti, L.; Rothkaehl, H.; Wozniakiewicz, P. J.; Burchell, M. J.; Alesbrook, L. A.; Sylvest, M. E. and Patel, M. R. (2023). DISC - the Dust Impact Sensor and Counter on-board Comet Interceptor: characterization of the dust coma of a dynamically new comet. Advances in Space Research, 71(18) pp. 3457–3467.

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Brož, P.; Krýza, O.; Patočka, V.; Pěnkavová, V.; Conway, S. J.; Mazzini, A.; Hauber, E.; Sylvest, M. E. and Patel, M. R. (2023). Volumetric Changes of Mud on Mars: Evidence From Laboratory Simulations. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 128(12), article no. e2023JE007950.

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Emerland, Zoe; Sylvest, Matthew and Patel, Manish (2023). The Open University Hypervelocity Impact Laboratory: An All-Axis Aeroballistic Range Facility. In: 72nd Aeroballistic Range Association Meeting, 10-15 Sep 2023, Tokyo, Japan.

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Piccirillo, A. M.; Corte, V. Della; Ferretti, S.; Rotundi, A.; Ammannito, E.; Bertini, I.; Ferraioli, G.; Fiscale, S.; Inno, L.; Longobardo, A.; Sindoni, G.; Wozniakiewicz, P.J.; Sylvest, M. and Patel, M. (2022). A Dedicated Simulation Chain for Hypervelocity Impacts Effect on Disc, Impact Sensor of the Comet Interceptor/ Esa Mission. In: Proceedings of 2022 Hypervelocity Impact Symposium HVIS2022, 18-22 Sep 2022, Alexandria, VA, USA, American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

McKeown, Lauren; McElwaine, J. N.; Bourke, M. C.; Sylvest, M. E. and Patel, M. R. (2021). The formation of araneiforms by carbon dioxide venting and vigorous sublimation dynamics under martian atmospheric pressure. Scientific Reports, 11, article no. 6445.

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Brož, P.; Krýza, O.; Conway, S.J.; Mueller, N.T.; Hauber, E.; Mazzini, A.; Raack, J.; Balme, M.; Sylvest, M.E. and Patel, M.R. (2020). Mud flow levitation on Mars: Insights from laboratory simulations. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 545, article no. 116406.

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Brož, Petr; Krýza, Ondřej; Wilson, Lionel; Conway, Susan J.; Hauber, Ernst; Mazzini, Adriano; Raack, Jan; Balme, Matthew; Sylvest, Matthew and Patel, Manish (2020). Experimental evidence for lava-like mud flows under Martian surface conditions. Nature Geoscience, 13 pp. 403–407.

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Sylvest, Matthew E.; Dixon, John C.; Conway, Susan J.; Patel, Manish R.; McElwaine, Jim N.; Hagermann, Axel and Barnes, Adam (2019). CO₂ sublimation in Martian gullies: laboratory experiments at varied slope angle and regolith grain sizes. In: Conway, S. J.; Carrivick, J. L.; Carling, P. A.; de Haas, T. and Harrison, T. N. eds. Martian Gullies and their Earth Analogues. Special Publication, 467. The Geological Society of London, pp. 343–371.

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