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Stepped fans and phyllosilicates on Mars
Planetary Geomorphology Image of the Month, April 1, 2018: Peter Grindrod (Natural History Museum, London, UK). A number of different studies have catalogued features on Mars that could be given the general heading of sedimentary fans… These features occur whenever … Continue reading
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Tagged alluvial fan deposits, alluvial fans, clay minerals, Coprates Chasma, phyllosilicates, Valles Marineris
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Mars Curiosity celebrates Sol 2,000
NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover just hit a new milestone: its two-thousandth Martian day, or sol, on the Red Planet. An image mosaic taken by the rover in January offers a preview of what comes next. Looming over the image is … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, clay minerals, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Phyllosilicate Trough, phyllosilicates, Vera Rubin Ridge
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HiRISE: A candidate human exploration zone of Maja Valles entry into Chryse Planitia
A candidate human exploration zone of Maja Valles entry into Chryse Planitia. Evidence of clays could provide potential resource to be used. There is also ample evidence of aqueous processes that could be enhanced by direct observation of the mineralogy … Continue reading
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Tagged Beautiful Mars, Chryse Planitia, clay minerals, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiRISE, human exploration, Human Exploration Zones, landing sites, Maja Valles, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, University of Arizona
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HiRISE: Clay-rich deposits possibly associated with Nif Crater
Clay-rich deposits possibly associated with Nif Crater. Beautiful Mars series.
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Tagged Beautiful Mars, clay minerals, clays, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiRISE, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, Nif Crater, phyllosilicates, University of Arizona
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Is underground the best place to look for origin of Mars life?
The planet Mars has long drawn interest from scientists and non-scientists as a possible place to search for evidence of life beyond Earth because the surface contains numerous familiar features such as dried river channels and dried lake beds that … Continue reading
Curiosity: Looking into the Phyllosilicate Trough
Sol 1949, January 29, 2018. The rover’s Navcam shot a composite that looks down into the low-lying area behind Vera Rubin Ridge. This is known as the Clay Unit or the Phyllosilicate Trough because clay minerals have been detected there … Continue reading
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Tagged Aeolis Mons, clay minerals, Clay Unit, Curiosity, Gale Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, Mount Sharp, MSL, Murray Formation, NASA, Phyllosilicate Trough, Vera Rubin Ridge
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HiRISE: Clays of Ladon Basin
Ladon Basin was a large impact structure that was filled in by the deposits from Ladon Valles, a major ancient river on Mars. These wet sediments were altered into minerals such as various clay minerals. Clays imply chemistry that may … Continue reading
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Tagged clay minerals, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiRISE, Ladon Basin, Ladon Valles, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, phyllosilicates, sediments, University of Arizona
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HiRISE: Clay-rich deposits associated with a degraded crater
Clay-rich deposits associated with a degraded crater. Beautiful Mars series.
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Tagged Beautiful Mars, clay minerals, High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, HiRISE, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, MRO, NASA, phyllosilicates, University of Arizona
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Clays quickly cooked in early Mars steambath
New research suggests that the bulk of clay minerals on Mars could have been formed as the planet’s crust cooled and solidified, not by later interactions with water on the surface as has long been assumed. (…) There are thousands … Continue reading
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Tagged aluminum phyllosilicates, atmosphere, basalt, clay minerals, magma ocean, steam, water
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HiRISE: Prospecting from orbit
The combination of morphological and topographic information from stereo images, as well as compositional data from near-infrared spectroscopy has been proven to be a powerful tool for understanding the geology of Mars. Beginning with the OMEGA instrument on the European … Continue reading