What has had more effect of erosion in the solar system- water, ice, or wind?
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solar winds
I'd guess wind b/c many planets don't have water
im gunna go out on a limb and say...none of the above.. TIME !
Do you mean the Eco-system? Huge blasts of microwaves emited from the sun in the form of sun spots and flares called the 'solar wind' will blast through the solar system irradiating anything with out an atmosphere to protect it.
Wind has a primary effect on erosion in the Eco-system with water a close second and ice last.
There is very clear evidence of erosion in many places on Mars including large floods and small river systems.
New evidence from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) spacecraft supports a long-held suspicion that much of the Red Planet's atmosphere was simply blown away -- by the solar wind.
Erosion to varying degrees dominates the later stages of surface feature evolution. Airless worlds have little to none (i.e. Mercury). Planets with thick atmospheres have few features left over from the early eras (i.e. Venus and Mars).
For planets and moons with no atmosphere, erosion is caused by collisions with other orbiting objects. So, I would guess that rocks & dust cause most of the erosion.
Odd question since different planets have different mechanisms. I would say water though clearly it is unimportant on Venus or Titan for example. It is a subjective answer to a subjective question. The question needs to be a little more definitive.
Neither, Gravity.
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