Martian surface Martian surface The study of surface characteristics (or surface properties and processes) is a broad category of Mars science that examines the nature of the materials making up the Martian surface. The study evolved from telescopic and remote-sensing techniques developed by astronomers to study planetary surfaces. However, it has increasingly become a subdiscipline of geology as automated spacecraft bring ever-improving resolution and instrument capabilities. By using characteristics such as color, albedo, and thermal inertia and analytical tools such as reflectance spectroscopy and radar, scientists are able to study the chemistry and physical makeup (e.g., grain sizes, surface roughness, and rock
Incompressible surface ∂"D". If "D" were to bound a disk inside "S" (which is always the case if "S" is incompressible, for example), then compressing "S" along "D" would result in a disjoint union of a sphere and a surface homeomorphic to "S". The resulting surface without the sphere might or might not be isotopic to "S". There is also an algebraic version of incompressibility. Suppose formula_4 is a proper embedding of a compact surface in a 3-manifold. Then "S" is "π"-injective (or algebraically incompressible) if the induced map on fundamental groups is injective. In general, every "π"-injective surface is incompressible, but