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Tag Archives: Mawrth Vallis
ExoMars 2018: Landing site shortlist chosen
ExoMars is a joint two-mission endeavour between ESA and Russia’s Roscosmos space agency. The Trace Gas Orbiter and an entry, descent, and landing demonstrator module, Schiaparelli, will be launched in January 2016, arriving at Mars nine months later. The Rover … Continue reading
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Tagged Aram Dorsum, ESA, European Space Agency, ExoMars, ExoMars 2018, Hypanis Valles, Mawrth Vallis, Oxia Planum, Roscosmos
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CRISM: Phyllosilicate minerals near Mawrth Vallis
This image, which covers a site located slightly west of the Mawrth Vallis outflow channel, shows aluminum-containing minerals called phyllosilicates in a cyan color and iron-magnesium-containing phyllosilicates in a red/magenta color. Phyllosilicates are clay and clay-like minerals formed by chemical … Continue reading
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Tagged aluminum phyllosilicates, clay minerals, Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, CRISM, iron-magnesium phyllosilicates, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mawrth Vallis, MRO, NASA, phyllosilicates
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CRISM: Aluminum and iron/magnesium clays in Mawrth Vallis
This image, which covers a site located northeast of Oyama Crater, shows aluminum-containing minerals called phyllosilicates in a cyan color and iron-magnesium-containing phyllosilicates in a red/magenta color. Phyllosilicates are clay and clay-like minerals formed by chemical reactions with liquid water. … Continue reading
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Tagged aluminum phyllosilicates, clays, Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, CRISM, iron-magnesium phyllosilicates, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mawrth Vallis, MRO, NASA, phyllosilicates
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CRISM: Aluminum phyllosilicates in Mawrth Vallis
This image is located right along the dichotomy boundary within a drainage channel named Mawrth Vallis. Here we see aluminum phyllosilicates (cyan to blue) exposed on the rim of a crater. Phyllosilicates are clay and clay-like minerals formed by chemical … Continue reading
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Tagged aluminum phyllosilicates, clays, Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, CRISM, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mawrth Vallis, MRO, NASA, phyllosilicates
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CRISM: Phyllosilicate minerals near Marwth Vallis
This image shows iron/magnesium-bearing hydrated minerals called phyllosilicates in a white/yellow color. Phyllosilicates are clay and clay-like minerals formed by chemical reactions with liquid water. They are very thin (microscopic) stacked layer crystal forms, also called sheet silicates. The CRISM … Continue reading
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Tagged Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, CRISM, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, Mawrth Vallis, MRO, NASA, phyllosilicates
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ExoMars 2018: Four landing site candidates
Some 60 scientists and engineers came together 26–28 March for the first ExoMars 2018 Landing Site Selection Workshop, held at ESA’s European Space Astronomy Centre near Madrid… The workshop attendees favoured four candidate sites – all of which are located … Continue reading
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Tagged ESA, European Space Agency, ExoMars, ExoMars 2018, Hypanis Valles, Mawrth Vallis, Oxia Palus, Oxia Planum, Roscosmos
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NASA’s long road to Gale Crater
If Gale Crater isn’t your favorite choice for a landing site for NASA’s next Mars rover, you can’t claim the choice was made hastily. The international community of Mars scientists thoroughly sifted the Red Planet to find a feasible landing … Continue reading
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Tagged Curiosity, Eberswalde Crater, Gale Crater, Holden Crater, Mars Science Laboratory, Mawrth Vallis, MSL
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