 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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...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...the principal goals of the mission is to identify Mars. A source rock, such as basalt, may be transformed |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | zones constrain diagenetic conditions at Gale crater, Mars E.M. Hausrath a,β , 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Evidence for Subsurface Hydrothermal Alteration on Mars with Implications for Astrobiology Elias Chatzitheodoridis...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)...al., 2013). Furthermore, the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument on board the MSL Curiosity rover |  | | Book | | (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...asteroid belt, more rarely from the surfaces of Mars and Moon, occasionally falling down to the Earth...Economic Minerals . Fig. 2.6 Pyroxene (basaltic augite), big phenocryst in basalt; besides, a second much...places only, e.g., in the Hamelin Pool of Shark Bay, Western Australia (. Fig. 2.11) or in the Mono Lake |
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