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Magnetite from
Rocknest eolian deposit, Yellowknife Bay, Aeolis Palus, Gale Crater, Aeolis quadrangle, Mars


Locality type:Deposit
Classification
Species:Magnetite
Formula:Fe2+Fe23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Magnetite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rocknest eolian deposit, Yellowknife Bay, Aeolis Palus, Gale Crater, Aeolis quadrangle, Mars
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:972912
Long-form Identifier:1:3:972912:4
GUID (UUID V4):a5584ccd-dc5b-4b5a-a024-ffeae8216b6e
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Mission of Exploration at Gale Crater, Mars Oblique southeast view of Gale Crater. Mt. Sharp rises centrally...2014; Vaniman et al. 2014). During its nominal one-Mars-year mission (23 Earth months), Curiosity drilled...thousands of images that provided KEYWORDS : Mars, Gale Crater, water, geochemistry, mineralogy, habitability...very productive. anded missions to the surface of Mars have long sought to determine the material properties...used to help evaluate ancient habitability. The Mars Science Laboratory mission—with its Curiosity rover—seeks
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Determining Mineralogy on Mars with the CheMin X-Ray Diffractometer The CheMin team logo illustrating...illustrating the diffraction of minerals on Mars. Robert T. Downs1 and the MSL Science Team 1811-5209/15/0011-0045$2...Ca–K-feldspars, while minor primary minerals include magnetite and ilmenite. CheMin also identified secondary...bassanite), iron KEYWORDS : X-ray diffraction, Mars, Gale Crater, habitable environment, CheMin, oxides (hematite...temperature, pressure, and The Mars rover Curiosity landed in Gale Crater on August ambient chemical conditions
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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...lacustrine, and eolian depositional environments are being investigated by the Mars Science Laboratory...Laboratory Curiosity in Gale crater, Mars. Geochemical and mineralogical observations of these sedimentary rocks
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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
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Evidence for Subsurface Hydrothermal Alteration on Mars with Implications for Astrobiology Elias Chatzitheodoridis...apatite crystals, olivine, sulfides, Ti-rich magnetite, and a new mineral of the rhoenite group. To infer...evidence of past or present water on the surface of Mars and then, more importantly, to search for the presence...presence of life. Water has already been detected on Mars (Bibring et al., 2004; Arvidson et al., 2005; Bellucci...also been identified in Gale Crater with the Mast Camera (Mastcam) of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
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SNC meteorites: Evidence for mantle homogeneity of Mars Arshad ALI1,2*, Iffat JABEEN1, David GREGORY3, Robert...information for revealing the igneous processes on Mars (Bridges and Warren 2006). Several studies have...plots between MFL and TFL supports the idea that Mars is an isotopically homogenous planet like the Earth...and oxide minerals (e.g., perovskite, spinel, magnetite, ruby, and hibonite). Our TFL ranges in d17O from...conclusion that the carbonate, originating from either Mars or Earth’s surface, is typically heavy in oxygen
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periclase, MgO, uraninite (7 Sect. 7.4), spinel, magnetite, chromite (7 Sect. 7.2), and the garnet group...moment results. 5 In ferrimagnetic crystals, like magnetite Fe2+Fe23+O4, the magnetic moments of the substructures...no longer strictly parallel to each other. For magnetite, this occurs at a Curie temperature of 578 °C...(7 Chap. 30), the inner planets Mercury, Venus, Mars and its satellites, as well as for the asteroids...concentrated in a belt situated between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter (7 Chap. 32). Rock samples from the
 
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