 | Kronyak, R. E., Kah, L. C., Edgett, K. S., VanBommel, S. J., Thompson, L. M., Wiens, R. C., Sun, V. Z., Nachon, M. (2019) Mineral-Filled Fractures as Indicators of Multigenerational Fluid Flow in the Pahrump Hills Member of the Murray Formation, Gale Crater, Mars. Earth and Space Science, 6 (2). 238-265 doi:10.1029/2018ea000482 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Pahrump Hills member of the Murray formation, Gale crater, Mars R. E. Kronyak1, L. C. Kah1, K. S. Edgett2...locality of the Murray formation, Mount Sharp, Gale crater, Mars Morphological and chemical data on veins...stability of depositional and diagenetic fluids in Gale crater This article has been accepted for publication...the sedimentary rock record preserved in Gale crater, Mars, indicates that post-depositional fluids were...Hills locality using the scientific payload of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover. Based |  | | Thesis/Dissertation | | Crystalline and X-Ray Amorphous Materials in Gale Crater Rocks and Soils Item Type text; Electronic Dissertation...CRYSTALLINE AND X-RAY AMORPHOUS MATERIALS IN GALE CRATER ROCKS AND SOILS by Cherie N. Achilles ______...Crystalline and X-Ray Amorphous Materials in Gale Crater Rocks and Soils and recommend that it be accepted...Active Eolian Sediment from the Namib Dune, Gale Crater, Mars ............................................B: Mineralogy of the Murray Formation in Gale Crater, Mars........................ 18 APPENDIX C: Redetermination |  | Sheppard, Rachel Y., Thorpe, Michael T., Fraeman, Abigail A., Fox, Valerie K., Milliken, Ralph E. (2021) Merging Perspectives on Secondary Minerals on Mars: A Review of Ancient Water-Rock Interactions in Gale Crater Inferred from Orbital and In-Situ Observations. Minerals, 11 (9) 986 doi:10.3390/min11090986 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Secondary Minerals on Mars: A Review of Ancient Water-Rock Interactions in Gale Crater Inferred from Orbital...Secondary Minerals on Mars: A Review of Ancient Water-Rock Interactions in Gale Crater Inferred from Orbital...secondary minerals detected on Mars from orbit and the surface, including in the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity...at Gale crater. These records of aqueous activity have been investigated in detail in Gale crater, where...strata for more sulfate-rich terrains, while the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is in its early exploration |  | Rampe, E.B., Ming, D.W., Blake, D.F., Bristow, T.F., Chipera, S.J., Grotzinger, J.P., Morris, R.V., Morrison, S.M., Vaniman, D.T., Yen, A.S., Achilles, C.N., Craig, P.I., Des Marais, D.J., Downs, R.T., Farmer, J.D., Fendrich, K.V., Gellert, R., Hazen, R.M., Kah, L.C., Morookian, J.M., Peretyazhko, T.S., Sarrazin, P., Treiman, A.H., Berger, J.A., Eigenbrode, J., Fairén, A.G., Forni, O., Gupta, S., Hurowitz, J.A., Lanza, N.L., Schmidt, M.E., Siebach, K., Sutter, B., Thompson, L.M. (2017) Mineralogy of an ancient lacustrine mudstone succession from the Murray formation, Gale crater, Mars. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 471. 172-185 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2017.04.021 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mudstone succession from the Murray formation, Gale crater, Mars E.B. Rampe a,∗ , D.W. Ming a , D.F. Blake...online 12 May 2017 Editor: C. Sotin Keywords: Mars Gale crater X-ray diffraction diagenesis acid-sulfate...t The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover has been traversing strata at the base of Aeolis Mons (informally...and Ni are highly enriched with respect to average Mars crust at the base of the Pahrump Hills (by 7.7 and...where they are depleted with respect to average Mars crust (by more than an order of magnitude in some |  | Tu, Valerie M., Rampe, Elizabeth B., Bristow, Thomas F., Thorpe, Michael T., Clark, Joanna V., Castle, Nicholas, Fraeman, Abigail A., Edgar, Lauren A., McAdam, Amy, Bedford, Candice, Achilles, Cherie N., Blake, David, Chipera, Steve J., Craig, Patricia I., Des Marais, David J., Downs, Gordon W., Downs, Robert T., Fox, Valerie, Grotzinger, John P., Hazen, Robert M., Ming, Douglas W., Morris, Richard V., Morrison, Shaunna M., Pavri, Betina, Eigenbrode, Jennifer, Peretyazhko, Tanya S., Sarrazin, Philippe C., Sutter, Brad, Treiman, Allan H., Vaniman, David T., Vasavada, Ashwin R., Yen, Albert S., Bridges, John C. (2021) A Review of the Phyllosilicates in Gale Crater as Detected by the CheMin Instrument on the Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity Rover. Minerals, 11 (8) 847 doi:10.3390/min11080847 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Phyllosilicates in Gale Crater as Detected by the CheMin Instrument on the Mars Science Laboratory,...Phyllosilicates in 7 8 Gale Crater as Detected by the CheMin Instrument on the Mars 9 Science Laboratory...Abstract: Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover, landed on Mars in August 2012 to investigate...deposits of Aeolis Mons (informally known as Mount Sharp) and the surrounding plains (Aeolis Palus) in Gale...Gale crater. After nearly nine years, Curiosity has traversed over 25 km, and the Chemistry and Mineralogy |  | Vaniman, David T., Martínez, Germán M., Rampe, Elizabeth B., Bristow, Thomas F., Blake, David F., Yen, Albert S., Ming, Douglas W., Rapin, William, Meslin, Pierre-Yves, Morookian, John Michael, Downs, Robert T., Chipera, Steve J., Morris, Richard V., Morrison, Shaunna M., Treiman, Allan H., Achilles, Cherie N., Robertson, Kevin, Grotzinger, John P., Hazen, Robert M., Wiens, Roger C., Sumner, Dawn Y. (2018) Gypsum, bassanite, and anhydrite at Gale crater, Mars. American Mineralogist, 103 (7) 1011-1020 doi:10.2138/am-2018-6346 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 103, pages 1011–1020, 2018 Gypsum, bassanite, and anhydrite at Gale crater, Marsk David T. Vaniman1,*...on Mars Science Laboratory show that gypsum, bassanite, and anhydrite are common minerals at Gale crater...Warm conditions (~6 to 30 °C) within CheMin drive gypsum dehydration to bassanite; measured surface temperatures...near-equatorial warm-season surface heating can also cause gypsum dehydration to bassanite. By accounting for instrumental...in sedimentary rocks and in eolian sands at Gale crater. All three Ca-sulfate minerals occur together |  | Bedford, C.C., Bridges, J.C., Schwenzer, S.P., Wiens, R.C., Rampe, E.B., Frydenvang, J., Gasda, P.J. (2019) Alteration trends and geochemical source region characteristics preserved in the fluviolacustrine sedimentary record of Gale crater, Mars. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 246. 234-266 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2018.11.031 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the fluviolacustrine sedimentary record of Gale crater, Mars C.C. Bedford a,⇑, J.C. Bridges b, S.P. Schwenzer...Available online 27 November 2018 Abstract The Mars Science Laboratory’s Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam)...to identify the compositional characteristics of Gale crater’s sediment source regions. The effects of...compositions which we hypothesise to have contributed to Gale crater’s stratigraphic record. These endmembers...the tholeiitic Adirondack Class basalts of Gusev crater, and dominant within the finer grained units up |  | Baucon, Andrea, Neto De Carvalho, Carlos, Felletti, Fabrizio, Cabella, Roberto (2020) Ichnofossils, Cracks or Crystals? A Test for Biogenicity of Stick-Like Structures from Vera Rubin Ridge, Mars. Geosciences, 10 (2) 39 doi:10.3390/geosciences10020039 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of Stick-Like Structures from Vera Rubin Ridge, Mars Andrea Baucon 1, *, Carlos Neto De Carvalho 2,3...2020 Abstract: New images from Mars rover Curiosity display millimetric, elongate stick-...pseudofossils; astrobiology; biosignatures; Mars; Vera Rubin Ridge; Gale Crater; Haroldswick 1. Introduction New...New observations at Vera Rubin Ridge by the Mars Space Laboratory Rover Curiosity show millimetric, elongate...deposited in fluvio-lacustrine environments within Gale Crater. On Earth, such settings are inhabited by an |  | Schwenzer, S. P., Bridges, J. C., Wiens, R. C., Conrad, P. G., Kelley, S. P., Leveille, R., Mangold, N., Martín-Torres, J., McAdam, A., Newsom, H., Zorzano, M. P., Rapin, W., Spray, J., Treiman, A. H., Westall, F., Fairén, A. G., Meslin, P.-Y. (2016) Fluids during diagenesis and sulfate vein formation in sediments at Gale crater, Mars. Meteoritics & Planetary Science, 51 (11) 2175-2202 doi:10.1111/maps.12668 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and sulfate vein formation in sediments at Gale crater, Mars S. P. SCHWENZER1,2,*, J. C. BRIDGES3, R. C...MK7 6AA, UK 2 Lunar and Planetary Institute, 3600 Bay Area Blvd., Houston, Texas 77058, USA 3 Space Research...Member mudstones of Yellowknife Bay (YKB), Gale crater, Mars, as revealed by the Mars Science Laboratory...Curiosity rover investigations. We compare the Gale crater waters with fluids modeled for shergottites,...meteorite ALH 84001, as well as rocks analyzed by the Mars Exploration rovers, and with terrestrial ground |  | L'Haridon, J., Mangold, N., Meslin, P.-Y., Johnson, J.R., Rapin, W., Forni, O., Cousin, A., Payré, V., Dehouck, E., Nachon, M., Le Deit, L., Gasnault, O., Maurice, S., Wiens, R.C. (2018) Chemical variability in mineralized veins observed by ChemCam on the lower slopes of Mount Sharp in Gale crater, Mars. Icarus, 311. 69-86 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2018.01.028 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ChemCam on the lower slopes of Mount Sharp in Gale crater, Mars J. L’Haridon , N. Mangold , P.-Y. Meslin ...ChemCam on the lower slopes of Mount Sharp in Gale crater, Mars, Icarus (2018), doi: 10.1016/j.icarus.2018...veins are pervasive along Curiosity traverse in Gale crater ChemCam highlights local enrichments in Fe and...CHEMCAM ON THE LOWER SLOPES OF MOUNT SHARP IN GALE CRATER, MARS. J. L’Haridon 1, N. Mangold 1, P.-Y. Meslin...specific localization of these observations in the Gale stratigraphy implies changing pH and redox conditions |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Resolving the era of river-forming climates on Mars using stratigraphic logs of river-deposit dimensions...Available online 3 April 2015 Editor: C. Sotin Keywords: Mars paleoclimate astrobiology stratigraphy rivers a...of the main lines of evidence that tell us that Mars once had a climate different from today, and so...how Mars climate changed with time. In this study, we focus in on one sedimentary basin – Aeolis Dorsa... 1. Introduction Many of the now-dry rivers on Mars were once fed by rain or by snow/ice melt, but physical |  | Oehler, Dorothy Z., Mangold, Nicolas, Hallet, Bernard, Fairén, Alberto G., Deit, Laetitia Le, Williams, Amy J., Sletten, Ronald S., Martínez-Frías, Jesús (2016) Origin and significance of decameter-scale polygons in the lower Peace Vallis fan of Gale crater, Mars. Icarus, 277. 56-72 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2016.04.038 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | polygons in the lower Peace Vallis fan of Gale crater, Mars Dorothy Z. Oehler a,∗, Nicolas Mangold b,...2016 Available online 3 May 2016 Keywords: Mars Mars climate Mars surface a b s t r a c t Decameter-scale...Gillespie Lake Member, north of Yellowknife Bay, the section first drilled by the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)...polygons to provide insight into the history of Gale crater. The polygons are ∼4–30 m across, square to rectangular...majority of proposed thermal-contraction polygons on Mars, as those are generally thought to be young features |  | Nachon, M., Mangold, N., Forni, O., Kah, L.C., Cousin, A., Wiens, R.C., Anderson, R., Blaney, D., Blank, J.G., Calef, F., Clegg, S.M., Fabre, C., Fisk, M.R., Gasnault, O., Grotzinger, J.P., Kronyak, R., Lanza, N.L., Lasue, J., Deit, L. Le, Mouélic, S. Le, Maurice, S., Meslin, P.-Y., Oehler, D.Z., Payré, V., Rapin, W., Schröder, S., Stack, K., Sumner, D. (2017) Chemistry of diagenetic features analyzed by ChemCam at Pahrump Hills, Gale crater, Mars. Icarus, 281. 121-136 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2016.08.026 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | features analyzed by ChemCam at Pahrump Hills, Gale crater, Mars M. Nachon a,∗, N. Mangold a, O. Forni b, L...2016 Available online 1 September 2016 Keywords: Mars surface Geological processes Mineralogy a b s t...compared to targets analyzed in other locations at Gale crater. Only the light-toned Ca-sulfate veins are present...reserved. Since its landing in August 2012, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover has operated...more than eleven kilometers within Gale crater. Along its path to Aeolis Mons (informally called Mount Sharp) |  | Yen, A.S., Ming, D.W., Vaniman, D.T., Gellert, R., Blake, D.F., Morris, R.V., Morrison, S.M., Bristow, T.F., Chipera, S.J., Edgett, K.S., Treiman, A.H., Clark, B.C., Downs, R.T., Farmer, J.D., Grotzinger, J.P., Rampe, E.B., Schmidt, M.E., Sutter, B., Thompson, L.M. (2017) Multiple stages of aqueous alteration along fractures in mudstone and sandstone strata in Gale Crater, Mars. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 471. 186-198 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2017.04.033 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | fractures in mudstone and sandstone strata in Gale Crater, Mars A.S. Yen a,∗ , D.W. Ming b , D.T. Vaniman...Keywords: Mars mineralogy geochemistry Curiosity rover aqueous alteration a b s t r a c t The Mars rover...rover Curiosity in Gale crater conducted the first-ever direct chemical and mineralogical comparisons of samples...hydrogeologic events presently known to have occurred in Gale crater. © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B...nasa.gov (A.S. Yen). The primary objective of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover is to assess |  | | Journal (issue) | | 011page 2 Mars Mineral History at Gale Crater, Mars By Vivien Gornitz The surface of Mars varies dramatically...dramatically. Its surface is covered by ancient, crater-pocked moon-like terrains. giant volcanoes, an enormous...heavily-cratered southern highlands, very early in Mars· history. Later catastrophic floods streamlined...outflow channels. Ice caps still cover both poles of Mars and subsurface ice is stored at higher latitudes...Because of its smaller size. relative to Earth. Mars lost much of its early atmosphere and water to space |  | Rapin, W., Meslin, P.-Y., Maurice, S., Vaniman, D., Nachon, M., Mangold, N., Schröder, S., Gasnault, O., Forni, O., Wiens, R.C., Martínez, G.M., Cousin, A., Sautter, V., Lasue, J., Rampe, E.B., Archer, D. (2016) Hydration state of calcium sulfates in Gale crater, Mars: Identification of bassanite veins. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 452. 197-205 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.07.045 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | com/locate/epsl Hydration state of calcium sulfates in Gale crater, Mars: Identification of bassanite veins W. Rapin...online 17 August 2016 Editor: C. Sotin Keywords: Mars calcium sulfate bassanite LIBS hydrogen ChemCam...sulfate veins crosscutting the sediments found in Gale crater. Laboratory experiments were performed to calibrate...far at Gale consist predominantly of bassanite which most likely formed by dehydration of gypsum. This...scenario suggests that the percolating water produced gypsum, possibly by hydration of anhydrite in aqueous |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Images from Curiosity: A New Look at Mars Self-portrait of the Curiosity rover, taken on sol 177 at the...DOI: 10.2113/gselements.11.1.27 T he surface of Mars has been sculpted by flowing water and shaped by...the first two years of its exploration of Gale Crater, the Mars Science Laboratory mission’s Curiosity rover...abundant geologic evidence that water once existed on Mars both within the subsurface and, as least episodically...past led to the selection of Gale Crater as the landing site for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | zones constrain diagenetic conditions at Gale crater, Mars E.M. Hausrath a,∗ , D.W. Ming b , T.S. Peretyazhko...online xxxx Editor: W.B. McKinnon Keywords: Gale crater Mars altered fracture zones Stimson formation reactive...a c t On a planet as cold and dry as present-day Mars, evidence of multiple aqueous episodes offers an...being investigated by the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity in Gale crater, Mars. Geochemical and mineralogical...multiple stages of aqueous alteration at Gale crater, Mars. Our model results indicate that early diagenesis |  | Peretyazhko, T.S., Fox, A., Sutter, B., Niles, P.B., Adams, M., Morris, R.V., Ming, D.W. (2016) Synthesis of akaganeite in the presence of sulfate: Implications for akaganeite formation in Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 188. 284-296 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2016.06.002 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Implications for akaganeite formation in Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars T.S. Peretyazhko a,⇑, A. Fox b, B...been recently discovered in Yellowknife Bay in Gale crater on Mars by the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)...associated with sulfate and sulfide minerals at Yellowknife Bay indicating that sulfate ions could be present...conditions of akaganeite formation in the Yellowknife Bay mudstone are unknown. We investigated formation...micro-environments) during akaganeite formation in Yellowknife Bay mudstone. The occurrence of Fe(II) sulfides |  | Franz, H. B., McAdam, A. C., Ming, D. W., Freissinet, C., Mahaffy, P. R., Eldridge, D. L., Fischer, W. W., Grotzinger, J. P., House, C. H., Hurowitz, J. A., McLennan, S. M., Schwenzer, S. P., Vaniman, D. T., Archer Jr, P. D., Atreya, S. K., Conrad, P. G., Dottin III, J. W., Eigenbrode, J. L., Farley, K. A., Glavin, D. P., Johnson, S. S., Knudson, C. A., Morris, R. V., Navarro-González, R., Pavlov, A. A., Plummer, R., Rampe, E. B., Stern, J. C., Steele, A., Summons, R. E., Sutter, B. (2017) Large sulfur isotope fractionations in Martian sediments at Gale crater. Nature Geoscience, 10 (9) 658-662 doi:10.1038/ngeo3002 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | isotope fractionations in Martian sediments at Gale crater H. B. Franz1*, A. C. McAdam1, D. W. Ming2, C...ancient fluvio-lacustrine environments at Gale crater on Mars and a lack of efficient crustal recycling...NASA’s Curiosity rover along a 13 km traverse of Gale crater. We find large variations in sulfur isotopic...that the observed sulfur isotopic signatures at Gale crater can be explained by equilibrium fractionation...transient warm periods. S edimentary strata on Mars preserve intriguing evidence for past shifts in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ChemCam: Chemostratigraphy by the First Mars Microprobe An artist’s conception of the ChemCam instrument...different locations on Mars. This instrument is the fi rst chemical microprobe on Mars and has an analytical...materials encountered along the rover traverse in Gale Crater, indicating the ubiquity of phyllosilicates as...indicating greater magmatic evolution than expected on Mars. The identification of individual soil components...our understanding of Mars as an active and once habitable planet. KEYWORDS : Mars geochemistry, chemostratigraphy |  | Johnson, Jeffrey R., Bell, J.F., Bender, S., Blaney, D., Cloutis, E., DeFlores, L., Ehlmann, B., Gasnault, O., Gondet, B., Kinch, K., Lemmon, M., Le Mouélic, S., Maurice, S., Rice, M., Wiens, R.C. (2015) ChemCam passive reflectance spectroscopy of surface materials at the Curiosity landing site, Mars. Icarus, 249. 74-92 doi:10.1016/j.icarus.2014.02.028 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | surface materials at the Curiosity landing site, Mars Jeffrey R. Johnson a,⇑, J.F. Bell III b, S. Bender...xxxx Keywords: Mars Mars, surface Spectroscopy a b s t r a c t The spectrometers on the Mars Science Laboratory...visible/near-infrared reflectance spectra from a landed platform on Mars. Relative reflectance spectra of surface rocks and...ChemCam spectra to laboratory spectra of minerals and Mars analog materials demonstrate similarities with palagonitic...surface materials at the Curiosity landing site, Mars. Icarus (2014), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus |  | Hickman-Lewis, Keyron, Foucher, Frédéric, Pelletier, Steven, Messori, Fabio, Westall, Frances (2020) Geological appraisals of core samples using the ExoMars 2020 rover instrumentation. Planetary and Space Science, 180. 104743 doi:10.1016/j.pss.2019.104743 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | C L E I N F O A B S T R A C T Keywords: PanCam Mars ExoMars 2020 CLUPI Optical petrology Biosignatures...after crushing of the core sample. Blind tests using Mars-analogue lithological samples provide valuable mission...account when interpreting the data collected on Mars (Foucher et al., 2013; Mangold et al., 2017). Emulations...have already been identified on Mars in Gale Crater sediments by the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity...rover, firstly in the Sheepbed Mudstone at Yellowknife Bay (Freissinet et al., 2015) and later at the |  | Lewis, James M.T., Watson, Jonathan S., Najorka, Jens, Luong, Duy, Sephton, Mark A. (2015) Sulfate Minerals: A Problem for the Detection of Organic Compounds on Mars?. Astrobiology, 15 (3) 247-258 doi:10.1089/ast.2014.1160 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Problem for the Detection of Organic Compounds on Mars? James M.T. Lewis,1 Jonathan S. Watson,1 Jens Najorka...Abstract The search for in situ organic matter on Mars involves encounters with minerals and requires an...oxidizes organic matter. Other common minerals on Mars, such as sulfates, may also produce oxygen upon...detection during in situ thermal experiments on Mars missions. A combination of preliminary mineralogical...the search for past or present life on Mars. Key Words: Mars—Life detection— Geochemistry—Organic matter—Jarosite |  | Runyon, K.D., Bridges, N.T., Ayoub, F., Newman, C.E., Quade, J.J. (2017) An integrated model for dune morphology and sand fluxes on Mars. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 457. 204-212 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2016.09.054 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | integrated model for dune morphology and sand fluxes on Mars K.D. Runyon a,∗ , N.T. Bridges b,a , F. Ayoub c...Technology, MC 100-23, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA d Aeolis Research, 600 N. Rosemead Blvd., Suite 205, Pasadena...Available online xxxx Editor: A. Yin Keywords: aeolian Mars climate stratigraphy surface processes GCM a b...most prevalent agent of landscape modification on Mars today, with fluxes comparable to some sand dunes...fields in Herschel Crater and Nili Patera, representative of many dune fields on Mars, we find a downwind |
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