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2. Diverse organic-mineral associations in Jezero crater, Mars

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Sharma, Sunanda, Roppel, Ryan D., Murphy, Ashley E., Beegle, Luther W., Bhartia, Rohit, Steele, Andrew, Hollis, Joseph Razzell, Siljeström, Sandra, McCubbin, Francis M., Asher, Sanford A., Abbey, William J., Allwood, Abigail C., Berger, Eve L., Bleefeld, Benjamin L., Burton, Aaron S., Bykov, Sergei V., Cardarelli, Emily L., Conrad, Pamela G., Corpolongo, Andrea, Czaja, Andrew D., DeFlores, Lauren P., Edgett, Kenneth, Farley, Kenneth A., Fornaro, Teresa, Fox, Allison C., Fries, Marc D., Harker, David, Hickman-Lewis, Keyron, Huggett, Joshua, Imbeah, Samara, Jakubek, Ryan S., Kah, Linda C., Lee, Carina, Liu, Yang, Magee, Angela, Minitti, Michelle, Moore, Kelsey R., Pascuzzo, Alyssa, Rodriguez Sanchez-Vahamonde, Carolina, Scheller, Eva L., Shkolyar, Svetlana, Stack, Kathryn M., Steadman, Kim, Tuite, Michael, Uckert, Kyle, Werynski, Alyssa, Wiens, Roger C., Williams, Amy J., Winchell, Katherine, Kennedy, Megan R., and Yanchilina, Anastasia

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2023
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3. In Situ Geochronology for the Next Decade: Mission Designs for the Moon, Mars, and Vesta

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Cohen, Barbara A., Young, Kelsey E., Zellner, Nicolle E. B., Zacny, Kris, Yingst, R. Aileen, Watkins, Ryan N., Warwick, Richard, Valencia, Sarah N., Swindle, Timothy D., Robbins, Stuart J., Petro, Noah E., Nicoletti, Anthony, Moriarty, III, Daniel P., Lynch, Richard, Indyk, Stephen J., Gross, Juliane, Grier, Jennifer A., Grant, John A., Ginyard, Amani, Fassett, Caleb I., Farley, Kenneth A., Farcy, Benjamin J., Ehlmann, Bethany L., Dyar, M. Darby, Daelemans, Gerard, Curran, Natalie M., van der Bogert, Carolyn H., Arevalo, Jr, Ricardo D., and Anderson, F. Scott

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Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
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Geochronology, or determination of absolute ages for geologic events, underpins many inquiries into the formation and evolution of planets and our Solar System. Absolute ages of ancient and recent magmatic products provide strong constraints on the dynamics of magma oceans and crustal formation, as well as the longevity and evolution of interior heat engines and distinct mantle/crustal source regions. Absolute dating also relates habitability markers to the timescale of evolution of life on Earth. However, the number of geochronologically-significant terrains across the inner Solar System far exceeds our ability to conduct sample return from all of them. In preparation for the upcoming Decadal Survey, our team formulated a set of medium-class (New Frontiers) mission concepts to three different locations (the Moon, Mars, and Vesta) where sites that record Solar System bombardment, magmatism, and/or habitability are uniquely preserved and accessible. We developed a notional payload to directly date planetary surfaces, consisting of two instruments capable of measuring radiometric ages in situ, an imaging spectrometer, optical cameras to provide site geologic context and sample characterization, a trace element analyzer to augment sample contextualization, and a sample acquisition and handling system. Landers carrying this payload to the Moon, Mars, and Vesta would likely fit into the New Frontiers cost cap in our study (~$1B). A mission of this type would provide crucial constraints on planetary history while also enabling a broad suite of investigations such as basic geologic characterization, geomorphologic analysis, ground truth for remote sensing analyses, analyses of major, minor, trace, and volatile elements, atmospheric and other long-lived monitoring, organic molecule analyses, and soil and geotechnical properties., Comment: Submitted to the Planetary Science Journal, October 2020

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2021

6. Oriented Bedrock Samples Drilled by the Perseverance Rover on Mars

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Weiss, Benjamin P., primary, Mansbach, Elias N., additional, Carsten, Joseph L., additional, Kaplan, Kyle W., additional, Maki, Justin N., additional, Wiens, Roger C., additional, Bosak, Tanja, additional, Collins, Curtis L., additional, Fentress, Jennifer, additional, Feinberg, Joshua M., additional, Goreva, Yulia, additional, Kennedy Wu, Megan, additional, Estlin, Tara A., additional, Klein, Douglas E., additional, Kronyak, Rachel E., additional, Moeller, Robert C., additional, Peper, Nicholas, additional, Reyes‐Newell, Adriana, additional, Sephton, Mark A., additional, Shuster, David L., additional, Simon, Justin I., additional, Williford, Kenneth H., additional, Stack, Kathryn W., additional, and Farley, Kenneth A., additional

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2024
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7. Short Communication: A database of the global distribution of (U-Th)/He ages and U, Th contents of goethites.

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Monteiro, Hevelyn S., Farley, Kenneth A., and Vasconcelos, Paulo M.

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DATABASES, NOBLE gases, COMING of age, WEATHER, INTERNATIONAL communication, GOETHITE
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Terrestrial supergene goethites of known ages record information on changes in weathering conditions through time. Here we present a database of (U-Th)/He ages and U and Th contents of goethites from different weathering environments around the globe. By consolidating published data collected at four different laboratories and unpublished data collected at the Noble Gas Laboratory at Caltech, we aim to give an overview of the work carried out by geochronologists and geochemists in the last 20 years. The database contains 2597 (U-Th)/He ages of goethites from 10 countries; most of the ages come from Brazil and Australia. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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8. Cosmogenic 3He dating of olivine with tightly retained mantle 3He, Volcano Mountain, Yukon.

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Mueller, Jessica, Bond, Jeffrey, Farley, Kenneth, and Ward, Brent

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OLIVINE, FLUID inclusions, VOLCANOES, LOW temperatures, PHENOCRYSTS
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We present a step-heat method for isolating cosmogenic 3He (3Hec) from mantle He in olivine xenocrysts to date the eruption of very young nephelinites from Volcano Mountain (VM) Yukon, Canada. In these olivines, the standard procedure of powdering grains to <30 µm failed to adequately remove mantle helium prior to fusion analyses. For example, in one powder fusion the concentration of 4He was 2.93 x 106 ± 6.04 x 104 Matoms/g with a 3He/4He ratio of 8.7 ± 0.3 RA (atmospheric ratio; RA = 1.384 x 10-6). Based on the 3He/4He ratio of 8.1 ± 0.2 RA released by crushing of the same sample, the estimated fraction of mantle 3He in the powder fusion is between 87 % and 98 % of the total 3He. The inability to effectively isolate 3Hec from these samples likely arises from the survival of small (<<30 µm) fluid inclusions hosting mantle He through the powdering step. The presence of such unusually small fluid inclusions may relate to the origin of the olivines as disaggregated peridotite xenoliths rather than the more commonly analyzed olivine phenocrysts. Regardless, the high proportion of mantle 3He in the powder fusion yields highly uncertain 3Hec exposure ages. We circumvented this problem by heating powdered olivine in a three-step heating schedule ranging from 700 to 1400 °C. 80–92 % of 3Hec was released in the low temperature step and the rest was released in the middle temperature step. By the highest temperature step, the released He had a mantle-like 3He/4Heratio. Using this technique on two samples from the youngest VM flow, we obtained precise estimates of cosmogenic 3He concentrations, from which we derive an eruption age of 10.9 ka ± 1.1 ka. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2024
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15. A Habitable Fluvio-Lacustrine Environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars

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Grotzinger, JP, Sumner, DY, Kah, LC, Stack, K, Gupta, S, Edgar, L, Rubin, D, Lewis, K, Schieber, J, Mangold, N, Milliken, R, Conrad, PG, DesMarais, D, Farmer, J, Siebach, K, Calef, F, Hurowitz, J, McLennan, SM, Ming, D, Vaniman, D, Crisp, J, Vasavada, A, Edgett, KS, Malin, M, Blake, D, Gellert, R, Mahaffy, P, Wiens, RC, Maurice, S, Grant, JA, Wilson, S, Anderson, RC, Beegle, L, Arvidson, R, Hallet, B, Sletten, RS, Rice, M, Bell, J, Griffes, J, Ehlmann, B, Anderson, RB, Bristow, TF, Dietrich, WE, Dromart, G, Eigenbrode, J, Fraeman, A, Hardgrove, C, Herkenhoff, K, Jandura, L, Kocurek, G, Lee, S, Leshin, LA, Leveille, R, Limonadi, D, Maki, J, McCloskey, S, Meyer, M, Minitti, M, Newsom, H, Oehler, D, Okon, A, Palucis, M, Parker, T, Rowland, S, Schmidt, M, Squyres, S, Steele, A, Stolper, E, Summons, R, Treiman, A, Williams, R, Yingst, A, Team, MSL Science, Kemppinen, Osku, Bridges, Nathan, Johnson, Jeffrey R, Cremers, David, Godber, Austin, Wadhwa, Meenakshi, Wellington, Danika, McEwan, Ian, Newman, Claire, Richardson, Mark, Charpentier, Antoine, Peret, Laurent, King, Penelope, Blank, Jennifer, Weigle, Gerald, Li, Shuai, Robertson, Kevin, Sun, Vivian, Baker, Michael, Edwards, Christopher, Farley, Kenneth, Miller, Hayden, Newcombe, Megan, Pilorget, Cedric, Brunet, Claude, Hipkin, Victoria, and Léveillé, Richard

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Bays, Carbon, Exobiology, Extraterrestrial Environment, Geologic Sediments, Hydrogen, Hydrogen-Ion Concentration, Iron, Mars, Nitrogen, Oxidation-Reduction, Oxygen, Phosphorus, Salinity, Sulfur, Water, MSL Science Team, General Science & Technology
Abstract

The Curiosity rover discovered fine-grained sedimentary rocks, which are inferred to represent an ancient lake and preserve evidence of an environment that would have been suited to support a martian biosphere founded on chemolithoautotrophy. This aqueous environment was characterized by neutral pH, low salinity, and variable redox states of both iron and sulfur species. Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen, and phosphorus were measured directly as key biogenic elements; by inference, phosphorus is assumed to have been available. The environment probably had a minimum duration of hundreds to tens of thousands of years. These results highlight the biological viability of fluvial-lacustrine environments in the post-Noachian history of Mars.

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2014

18. The growth of northeastern Tibet and its relevance to large‐scale continental geodynamics: A review of recent studies

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Yuan, Dao‐Yang, Ge, Wei‐Peng, Chen, Zhen‐Wei, Li, Chuan‐You, Wang, Zhi‐Cai, Zhang, Hui‐Ping, Zhang, Pei‐Zhen, Zheng, De‐Wen, Zheng, Wen‐Jun, Craddock, William H, Dayem, Katherine E, Duvall, Alison R, Hough, Brian G, Lease, Richard O, Champagnac, Jean‐Daniel, Burbank, Douglas W, Clark, Marin K, Farley, Kenneth A, Garzione, Carmala N, Kirby, Eric, Molnar, Peter, and Roe, Gerard H

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Tibet, continents, geodynamics, Geology, Geophysics, Geochemistry & Geophysics
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Recent studies of the northeastern part of the Tibetan Plateau have called attention to two emerging views of how the Tibetan Plateau has grown. First, deformation in northern Tibet began essentially at the time of collision with India, not 10-20 Myr later as might be expected if the locus of activity migrated northward as India penetrated the rest of Eurasia. Thus, the north-south dimensions of the Tibetan Plateau were set mainly by differences in lithospheric strength, with strong lithosphere beneath India and the Tarim and Qaidam basins steadily encroaching on one another as the region between them, the present-day Tibetan Plateau, deformed, and its north-south dimension became narrower. Second, abundant evidence calls for acceleration of deformation, including the formation of new faults, in northeastern Tibet since ~15 Ma and a less precisely dated change in orientation of crustal shortening since ~20 Ma. This reorientation of crustal shortening and roughly concurrent outward growth of high terrain, which swings from NNE-SSW in northern Tibet to more NE-SW and even ENE-WSW in the easternmost part of northeastern Tibet, are likely to be, in part, a consequence of crustal thickening within the high Tibetan Plateau reaching a limit, and the locus of continued shortening then migrating to the northeastern and eastern flanks. These changes in rates and orientation also could result from removal of some or all mantle lithosphere and increased gravitational potential energy per unit area and from a weakening of crustal material so that it could flow in response to pressure gradients set by evolving differences in elevation. Key Points The north-south limits of Tibet were set by lateral variations in strength Roughly 15 million years ago, deformation of NE Tibet accelerated Since 20-15 million years ago, the orientation of shortening rotated eastward ©2013. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved.

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2013

19. Mars 2020 Mission Overview

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Farley, Kenneth A., Williford, Kenneth H., Stack, Kathryn M., Bhartia, Rohit, Chen, Al, de la Torre, Manuel, Hand, Kevin, Goreva, Yulia, Herd, Christopher D. K., Hueso, Ricardo, Liu, Yang, Maki, Justin N., Martinez, German, Moeller, Robert C., Nelessen, Adam, Newman, Claire E., Nunes, Daniel, Ponce, Adrian, Spanovich, Nicole, Willis, Peter A., Beegle, Luther W., Bell, III, James F., Brown, Adrian J., Hamran, Svein-Erik, Hurowitz, Joel A., Maurice, Sylvestre, Paige, David A., Rodriguez-Manfredi, Jose A., Schulte, Mitch, and Wiens, Roger C.

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2020
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20. Photogeologic Map of the Perseverance Rover Field Site in Jezero Crater Constructed by the Mars 2020 Science Team

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Stack, Kathryn M., Williams, Nathan R., Calef, III, Fred, Sun, Vivian Z., Williford, Kenneth H., Farley, Kenneth A., Eide, Sigurd, Flannery, David, Hughes, Cory, Jacob, Samantha R., Kah, Linda C., Meyen, Forrest, Molina, Antonio, Nataf, Cathy Quantin, Rice, Melissa, Russell, Patrick, Scheller, Eva, Seeger, Christina H., Abbey, William J., Adler, Jacob B., Amundsen, Hans, Anderson, Ryan B., Angel, Stanley M., Arana, Gorka, Atkins, James, Barrington, Megan, Berger, Tor, Borden, Rose, Boring, Beau, Brown, Adrian, Carrier, Brandi L., Conrad, Pamela, Dypvik, Henning, Fagents, Sarah A., Gallegos, Zachary E., Garczynski, Brad, Golder, Keenan, Gomez, Felipe, Goreva, Yulia, Gupta, Sanjeev, Hamran, Svein-Erik, Hicks, Taryn, Hinterman, Eric D., Horgan, Briony N., Hurowitz, Joel, Johnson, Jeffrey R., Lasue, Jeremie, Kronyak, Rachel E., Liu, Yang, Madariaga, Juan Manuel, Mangold, Nicolas, McClean, John, Miklusicak, Noah, Nunes, Daniel, Rojas, Corrine, Runyon, Kirby, Schmitz, Nicole, Scudder, Noel, Shaver, Emily, SooHoo, Jason, Spaulding, Russell, Stanish, Evan, Tamppari, Leslie K., Tice, Michael M., Turenne, Nathalie, Willis, Peter A., and Aileen Yingst, R.

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2020
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22. Rapid recovery of life at ground zero of the end-Cretaceous mass extinction

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Lowery, Christopher M., Bralower, Timothy J., Owens, Jeremy D., Rodríguez-Tovar, Francisco J., Jones, Heather, Smit, Jan, Whalen, Michael T., Claeys, Phillipe, Farley, Kenneth, Gulick, Sean P. S., Morgan, Joanna V., Green, Sophie, Chenot, Elise, Christeson, Gail L., Cockell, Charles S., Coolen, Marco J. L., Ferrière, Ludovic, Gebhardt, Catalina, Goto, Kazuhisa, Kring, David A., Lofi, Johanna, Ocampo-Torres, Rubén, Perez-Cruz, Ligia, Pickersgill, Annemarie E., Poelchau, Michael H., Rae, Auriol S. P., Rasmussen, Cornelia, Rebolledo-Vieyra, Mario, Riller, Ulrich, Sato, Honami, Tikoo, Sonia M., Tomioka, Naotaka, Urrutia-Fucugauchi, Jaime, Vellekoop, Johan, Wittmann, Axel, Xiao, Long, Yamaguchi, Kosei E., and Zylberman, William

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2018
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23. Fine-scale sedimentary architecture of the upper part of the Jezero western delta front

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Gupta, Sanjeev, Bell III, J.F., Caravaca, Gwénaël, Mangold, Nicolas, Stack‐Morgan, Katie, Kanine, Oak, Tate, Christian, Tice, Michael M., Williams, Amy, Russell, Patrick, Núñez, Jorge, Dromart, Gilles, Williams, R, Le Mouélic, Stéphane, Barnes, Robert, Annex, Andrew, Paar, Gerhard, Holm-Alwmark, Sanna, Rice, Melissa S., Rice, James, Horgan, Briony, Grotzinger, John, Maki, Justin, Hickman Lewis, Keyron, Kah, Lindah, Shuster, David L., Simon, Justin I., Minitti, Michelle, Siebach, Kirsten, Gasnault, Olivier, Wiens, Roger, Maurice, Sylvestre, Farley, Kenneth A., Department of Earth Science and Engineering [Imperial College London], Imperial College London, Arizona State University [Tempe] (ASU), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences [UMR_C 6112] (LPG), Université d'Angers (UA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Nantes université - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (Nantes univ - UFR ST), Nantes Université - pôle Sciences et technologie, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université - pôle Sciences et technologie, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences [Pasadena], California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Cornell University [New York], Texas A&M University [College Station], Department of Geological Sciences [Gainesville] (UF|Geological), University of Florida [Gainesville] (UF), Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences [Los Angeles] (EPSS), University of California [Los Angeles] (UCLA), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD] (APL), Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Planetary Science Institute [Tucson] (PSI), Joanneum Research, University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), Geology Department, Western Washington University, Western Washington University (WWU), School of Earth and Space Exploration [Tempe] (SESE), Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, The Natural History Museum [London] (NHM), The University of Tennessee [Knoxville], Berkeley Geochronology Center (BGC), NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), NASA, Planetary Geosciences Institute [Knoxville], Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences [Knoxville], The University of Tennessee [Knoxville]-The University of Tennessee [Knoxville], Rice University [Houston], and Lunar and Planetary Institute

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Jezero crater, delta, [SDU.STU.PL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Planetology, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Mars 2020, [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], Mars, sedimentology
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International audience; Orbital and rover observations of relict geomorphic features and stratigraphic architectures indicate Mars once had a warmer, wetter climate. Constraining the character, relative timing and persistence of ancient aqueous activity on Mars is possible through detailed interrogation of the stratal geometry of aqueously deposited sedimentary bodies. Such analyses inform interpretations of Martian climate evolution, potential habitability, and search strategies for rocks that might contain potential biosignatures. NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is seeking signs of ancient life in Jezero crater and is collecting a cache of Martian rock and soil samples for planned return to Earth by a future mission.A prominent sedimentary fan deposit at the western margin of Jezero crater has been interpreted to be a riverdelta that built into an ancient lake basin during the Late Noachian-Early Hesperian epochs on Mars (~3.6-3.8Ga) [1, 2]. The Perseverance rover landed on 18 February 2021 ~2.2 km from the western fan. In March-April 2022, the rover conducted a rapid traverse along the eastern and southeastern side of Jezero fan onlyobtaining a few remote sensing observations along the way. In April 2022, the rover arrived at the base of theancient delta in the Three Forks region of the crater floor adjacent to the delta front (Fig. 1). During the ‘rapidtraverse’ and the exploration of two sections at the delta front - Cape Nukshak and Hawksbill Gap –Perseverance obtained striking images from the Mastcam-Z and SuperCam’s Remote Micro-Imagerinstruments of the stratigraphy exposed stratigraphically higher up in the fan’s erosional front [3]. Images providenew views of the stratigraphy exposed in the erosional front of the western Jezero delta; in particular, showingsections of the delta previously not visible from long distance observations and at much higher resolution.Here, we report its stratigraphy and sedimentology, which provide new constraints on the nature of the fandeposits, and therefore paleoenvironmental implications.

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2023

24. EXPLORING THE JEZERO DELTA FRONT: OVERVIEW OF RESULTS FROM THE MARS 2020 PERSEVERANCE ROVER'S SECOND SCIENCE CAMPAIGN

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Williams, Amy, Russell, Patrick, Sun, Vivian Z., Shuster, David L., Stack‐Morgan, Katie, Farley, Kenneth A., del Sesto, Tyler, Kronyak, Rachel E., Bell, Jim F., Beyssac, Olivier, Brown, Adrian J., Caravaca, Gwénaël, Gupta, Sanjeev, Núñez, Jorge, Randazzo, Nicolas, Simon, Justin I., Wadhwa, Meenakshi, Department of Geological Sciences [Gainesville] (UF|Geological), University of Florida [Gainesville] (UF), Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences [Los Angeles] (EPSS), University of California [Los Angeles] (UCLA), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Berkeley Geochronology Center (BGC), Department of Earth and Planetary Science [UC Berkeley] (EPS), University of California [Berkeley] (UC Berkeley), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Arizona State University [Tempe] (ASU), Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Plancius Research LLC, Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Department of Earth Science and Engineering [Imperial College London], Imperial College London, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD] (APL), University of Alberta, NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), NASA, and Lunar and Planetary Institute

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jezero crater, delta, [SDU.STU.PL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Planetology, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], [SDU.STU.ST]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Stratigraphy, Mars, mars 2020, sedimentology, stratigraphy, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, delta front campaign
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International audience; The Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater on February 18, 2021, with the mission goals to explore the geology, astrobiological potential, and modern environment of the crater floor and delta, and to collect and cache well-documented samples for Mars Sample Return. After completion of the “Crater Floor” science campaign [1], the rover conducted a rapid traverse (sols 379-414) to the Three Forks region of the crater floor adjacent to the delta front. From here, Perseverance’s second “Delta Front” science campaign (DFC) began on Sol 415, April 20, 2022. The DFC has explored two lobes of the delta front, the neighboring crater floor, and their contact zone, focusing on the lowest geologic exposures composing the Jezero delta (largely mapped within the delta “thin layered unit” [2]). As of January 1, 2023, Perseverance has covered 14325 km of traverse distance and collected 15 rock sample cores, 2 regolith samples, 1 atmospheric sample, and 3 witness tubes, employing a sample pair strategy where each unique sample is paired with a companion sample core from the same location, to enable the construction of two different caches [3]. After sample depot construction at Three Forks, the DFC will conclude upon re-ascent of the delta front, and the next “Delta Top” science campaign will start.

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2023

25. List of Contributors

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Allwood, Abigail C., primary, Arvidson, Raymond E., additional, Baglioni, Pietro, additional, Beaty, David, additional, Beegle, Luther W., additional, Berger, Jeff A., additional, Bhartia, Rohit, additional, Bibring, Jean-Pierre, additional, Bishop, Janice L., additional, Brack, André, additional, Brinckerhoff, William, additional, Brown, Adrian J., additional, Cabrol, Nathalie A., additional, Cady, Sherry L., additional, Catalano, Jeffrey G., additional, Ciarletti, Valérie, additional, Coates, Andrew J., additional, Davila, Alfonso, additional, De Sanctis, M. Cristina, additional, Elphic, Richard C., additional, Farley, Kenneth A., additional, Farmer, Jack D., additional, Flannery, David T., additional, Goesmann, Fred, additional, Grin, Edmond A., additional, Gulick, Virginia G., additional, Häder, Donat-Peter, additional, Hamilton, David, additional, Hamran, Svein-Erik, additional, Hecht, Michael H., additional, Hinman, Nancy W., additional, Hurowitz, Joel A., additional, Jaumann, Ralf, additional, Josset, Jean-Luc, additional, de la Torre Juarez, Manuel, additional, Kminek, Gerhard, additional, Korablev, Oleg, additional, Maurice, Sylvestre, additional, McEwen, Alfred S., additional, McKay, Christopher, additional, Milkovich, Sarah, additional, Mitrofanov, Igor, additional, Moersch, Jeffrey, additional, Noffke, Nora, additional, Phillips, Cynthia, additional, Quinn, Richard, additional, Raulin, François, additional, Rodionov, Daniel, additional, Rodriguez-Manfredi, Jose A., additional, Rull, Fernando, additional, Sefton-Nash, Elliot, additional, Skok, John R., additional, Sobron, Pablo, additional, Stack, Kathryn M., additional, Summers, David, additional, Summons, Roger E., additional, Svedhem, Håkan, additional, Teodoro, Luis, additional, Vago, Jorge L., additional, Walter, Malcolm R., additional, Warren-Rhodes, Kimberley, additional, Westall, Frances, additional, Wettergreen, David S., additional, Wiens, Roger C., additional, Williford, Kenneth H., additional, Winter, Diane, additional, and Zippi, Pierre, additional

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2018
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26. The NASA Mars 2020 Rover Mission and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

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Williford, Kenneth H., primary, Farley, Kenneth A., additional, Stack, Kathryn M., additional, Allwood, Abigail C., additional, Beaty, David, additional, Beegle, Luther W., additional, Bhartia, Rohit, additional, Brown, Adrian J., additional, de la Torre Juarez, Manuel, additional, Hamran, Svein-Erik, additional, Hecht, Michael H., additional, Hurowitz, Joel A., additional, Rodriguez-Manfredi, Jose A., additional, Maurice, Sylvestre, additional, Milkovich, Sarah, additional, and Wiens, Roger C., additional

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2018
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27. A new model of bauxitization in quartzitic landscapes: A case study from the Southern Espinhaço Range (Brazil).

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De Campos, Daniela S., Monteiro, Hevelyn S., Vasconcelos, Paulo M., Farley, Kenneth A., Silva, Alexandre Christófaro, and Vidal‐Torrado, Pablo

Subjects
TROPICAL climate, WEATHERING, EROSION, IRON, LANDSCAPES, GEOLOGICAL time scales, GOETHITE
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Lithology plays a fundamental role in rock weathering and erosion, and in landscape evolution. When weathering‐ and erosion‐prone lithologies are protected from erosion by more resilient rock types (e.g., quartzites and banded iron formations) unusual weathering products result. At the Southern Espinhaço Range, Minas Gerais, Brazil, bauxitic weathering profiles are found in a unique geomorphological–lithological–climatic setting. Resistant quartzites acted as a barrier against erosion of interbedded hematite‐phyllite lenses, channelling solution flows and facilitating the formation of deep weathering profiles. The long‐term exposure of the hematite‐phyllites under alternating wet and dry tropical climates favoured widespread bauxitization. Here we investigate the geochemical, mineralogical, geochronological and micromorphological signatures of scaffolded bauxites in order to reconstruct their evolutionary history. Our data suggest that recurrent aluminium and iron mobilization within the profiles were mainly driven by mineral dissolution‐reprecipitation mediated by bioturbation and the influx of vegetation‐derived organic species. (U–Th)/He geochronology of Al‐goethite reveals that bauxitization started at least since the Lower Miocene, with important intensification of weathering in the Upper Miocene and Lower Pleistocene. The adjacent resilient quartzites acted as scaffolds for bauxitization and supported the preservation of more erodible weathering profiles developed over phyllites. Surface waters that could not infiltrate into the impermeable adjacent quartzites preferentially infiltrated into the more weathereable phyllites, enhancing their porosity and permeability, further enhancing weathering. The evolutionary history of Southern Espinhaço Range bauxites suggests a new model of bauxitization in ancient land surfaces evolution underlain by quartzites, where erosion‐prone lithologies are scaffolded by resilient quartzites and survive long‐term weathering with minimum erosion, producing bauxites. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2023
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29. Aqueous alteration processes in Jezero crater, Mars—implications for organic geochemistry

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Scheller, Eva L., primary, Razzell Hollis, Joseph, additional, Cardarelli, Emily L., additional, Steele, Andrew, additional, Beegle, Luther W., additional, Bhartia, Rohit, additional, Conrad, Pamela, additional, Uckert, Kyle, additional, Sharma, Sunanda, additional, Ehlmann, Bethany L., additional, Abbey, William J., additional, Asher, Sanford A., additional, Benison, Kathleen C., additional, Berger, Eve L., additional, Beyssac, Olivier, additional, Bleefeld, Benjamin L., additional, Bosak, Tanja, additional, Brown, Adrian J., additional, Burton, Aaron S., additional, Bykov, Sergei V., additional, Cloutis, Ed, additional, Fairén, Alberto G., additional, DeFlores, Lauren, additional, Farley, Kenneth A., additional, Fey, Deidra M., additional, Fornaro, Teresa, additional, Fox, Allison C., additional, Fries, Marc, additional, Hickman-Lewis, Keyron, additional, Hug, William F., additional, Huggett, Joshua E., additional, Imbeah, Samara, additional, Jakubek, Ryan S., additional, Kah, Linda C., additional, Kelemen, Peter, additional, Kennedy, Megan R., additional, Kizovski, Tanya, additional, Lee, Carina, additional, Liu, Yang, additional, Mandon, Lucia, additional, McCubbin, Francis M., additional, Moore, Kelsey R., additional, Nixon, Brian E., additional, Núñez, Jorge I., additional, Rodriguez Sanchez-Vahamonde, Carolina, additional, Roppel, Ryan D., additional, Schulte, Mitchell, additional, Sephton, Mark A., additional, Sharma, Shiv K., additional, Siljeström, Sandra, additional, Shkolyar, Svetlana, additional, Shuster, David L., additional, Simon, Justin I., additional, Smith, Rebecca J., additional, Stack, Kathryn M., additional, Steadman, Kim, additional, Weiss, Benjamin P., additional, Werynski, Alyssa, additional, Williams, Amy J., additional, Wiens, Roger C., additional, Williford, Kenneth H., additional, Winchell, Kathrine, additional, Wogsland, Brittan, additional, Yanchilina, Anastasia, additional, Yingling, Rachel, additional, and Zorzano, Maria-Paz, additional

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2022
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32. Insights into the Sedimentary Record and Processes of the Western Delta of Jezero crater (Mars) as observed by the Mars 2020 rover Perseverance. (Invited)

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Caravaca, Gwénaël, Mangold, Nicolas, Gupta, Sanjeev, Stack, Kathryn, Núñez, Jorge, Dromart, Gilles, Kanine, Oak, Tate, Christian, Minitti, Michelle, Sholes, Steven, Tice, Michael M., Nachon, Marion, Siebach, Kirsten, Grotzinger, John, Flannery, David, Simon, Justin I., Horgan, Briony, Le Mouélic, Stéphane, Shuster, David L., Williams, Amy, Russell, Patrick, Farley, Kenneth A., Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences [UMR_C 6112] (LPG), Université d'Angers (UA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Nantes université - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (Nantes univ - UFR ST), Nantes Université - pôle Sciences et technologie, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université - pôle Sciences et technologie, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ), Department of Earth Science and Engineering [Imperial College London], Imperial College London, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD] (APL), Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences [Pasadena], California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Cornell University [New York], Planetary Geosciences Institute [Knoxville], Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences [Knoxville], The University of Tennessee [Knoxville]-The University of Tennessee [Knoxville], Texas A&M University [College Station], Rice University [Houston], Queensland University of Technology [Brisbane] (QUT), NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), NASA, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, Berkeley Geochronology Center (BGC), Department of Earth and Planetary Science [UC Berkeley] (EPS), University of California [Berkeley] (UC Berkeley), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Department of Geological Sciences [Gainesville] (UF|Geological), University of Florida [Gainesville] (UF), University of California [Los Angeles] (UCLA), University of California (UC), American Geophysical Union, and CARAVACA, Gwénaël

Subjects
paleoenvironment, shenandoah formation, Mars 2020, sedimentology, stratigraphy, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, [SDU] Sciences of the Universe [physics], Jezero crater, [SDU.STU.PL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Planetology, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], [SDU.STU.ST]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Stratigraphy, [SDU.STU] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, [SDU.STU.ST] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Stratigraphy, [SDU.STU.PL] Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Planetology
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International audience; Since its landing in Jezero crater in February 2021, the western delta of Jezero has been one of the main targets for the Perseverance rover to explore and sample sedimentary rocks that lead us to better understand the environmental evolution of the region, and could host traces of past biosignatures.During the first year, the rover explored the floor of Jezero crater, focusing on aqueously altered igneous rocks. It also provided the opportunity to remotely observe the main delta front and its remnants (e.g., the Kodiak butte). This allowed us to distinguish several beds of sandstones (with local occurrences of boulders up to 30 cm) arranged into bottomsets, foresets and topsets morphologies. This tripartite geometry and steep slopes of foresets are characteristic of a Gilbert-type delta, formed by the deposition of fluvial sediments prograding into a standing body of water, here a paleolake whose level can be constrained by the transition from the foresets to topsets. Massive beds of boulder conglomerates (with boulders up to 1.5 m) have also been observed at or close to the top of many locations along the delta’s front, hinting at a transition to higher energy flows. Collectively, these elements argue for a polyphase complex depositional history of the delta through time.The toe of the current delta front was reached by the rover on Sol 422 (April 2022) when Perseverance arrived at the Enchanted Lake outcrop, at the base of the southeastern end of the promontory informally named Cape Nukshak on the distal end of the delta. The first in-place sedimentary rocks that were observed were a succession of thinly-laminated medium/coarse sandstones and mudstones. Then, Perseverance pursued its route towards the delta and started its ascension at Hawksbill Gap to assess the first half of the lower delta succession. Strata at the base of Hawksbill Gap are mostly composed of fine to coarse-grained rocks ranging from mudstones to granule conglomerates, displaying planar to low-angle cross-stratifications.These fine-grained detrital rocks are likely to have been deposited by fluvial to deltaic processes. There, the rover collected the first sets of paired sedimentary rock samples (coarse sandstone to micro-conglomerate) that will represent the fine- and coarse-grained lower delta succession once returned to Earth.

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2022

33. Fine-Scale Sedimentary Architecture of the Jezero Western Delta Front

Author

Gupta, Sanjeev, Bell, Jim F., Caravaca, Gwénaël, Kanine, Oak, Mangold, Nicolas, Stack, Kathryn, Tate, Christian, Tice, Michael M., Williams, Amy, Russell, Patrick, Núñez, Jorge, Dromart, Gilles, Williams, Rebecca M. E., Le Mouélic, Stéphane, Barnes, Robert, Annex, Andrew, Paar, Gerhard, Holm-Alwmark, Sanna, Rice, Melissa S., Rice, James, Horgan, Briony, Grotzinger, John, Maki, Justin, Hickman-Lewis, Keyron, Kah, Linda, Shuster, David L., Simon, Justin I., Minitti, Michelle, Siebach, Kirsten, Gasnault, Olivier, Wiens, Roger, Maurice, Sylvestre, Farley, Kenneth A., Department of Earth Science and Engineering [Imperial College London], Imperial College London, Arizona State University [Tempe] (ASU), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences [Pasadena], California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences [UMR_C 6112] (LPG), Université d'Angers (UA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Nantes université - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (Nantes univ - UFR ST), Nantes Université - pôle Sciences et technologie, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université - pôle Sciences et technologie, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Cornell University [New York], Texas A&M University [College Station], Department of Geological Sciences [Gainesville] (UF|Geological), University of Florida [Gainesville] (UF), Department of Earth, Planetary and Space Sciences [Los Angeles] (EPSS), University of California [Los Angeles] (UCLA), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD] (APL), Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Planetary Science Institute [Tucson] (PSI), Joanneum Research, University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), Geology Department, Western Washington University, Western Washington University (WWU), School of Earth and Space Exploration [Tempe] (SESE), Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, The Natural History Museum [London] (NHM), The University of Tennessee [Knoxville], Berkeley Geochronology Center (BGC), NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), NASA, Planetary Geosciences Institute [Knoxville], Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences [Knoxville], The University of Tennessee [Knoxville]-The University of Tennessee [Knoxville], Rice University [Houston], and American Geophysical Union

Subjects
gibert-delta, Jezero crater, delta, [SDU.STU.PL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Planetology, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], [SDU.STU.ST]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Stratigraphy, Mars 2020, sedimentology, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, sedimentary architecture
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International audience; A key exploration target for the Perseverance rover mission is a sedimentary fan deposit at the western margin of Jezero crater, which has been interpretated to be a river delta that built into a lake basin during the Late Noachian-Early Hesperian epochs on Mars (~3.6-3.8 Ga). Images from the Mastcam-Z and SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager instruments provide striking views of the stratigraphy exposed in the fan’s erosional front. Here, we report its stratigraphy and sedimentology, which place constraints on the nature of the fan deposits and their paleoenvironmental implications.Multiple Mastcam-Z mosaics show spectacular views of the stratigraphy of a prominent embayment in the delta scarp that has been informally named Hawksbill Gap, the lower section of which the rover is investigating and sampling. The prominent cliffs of the eastern and western margin of Hawksbill Gap show distinctive stratal geometries with complex stratigraphic relations. The basal succession comprises poorly exposed thinly bedded, planar laminated sandstones that are interpreted as the deposits of low-density turbidity currents. A locally prominent, resistant unit named Rocky Top comprises planar stratified pebbly sandstones also likely to be high-density turbidite deposits. The stratigraphic mid-sections of the scarps are characterized by packages of decameter-scale inclined tabular strata. These tabular beds are locally conglomeratic but predominantly comprise finer-than-conglomerate lithologies, likely pebbly sandstones. Interstratified within these are poorly sorted matrix-supported conglomerates interpreted to be debris flow deposits. The inclined strata are overlain across a sharp truncation surface by generally planar parallel thin-bedded horizontal strata that we interpret as topset beds. Conglomerate beds containing bouldersare located within the overlying topset strata. The stratal patterns are broadly consistent with deposition in a Gilbert-type delta setting with basal strata representing deposition from sediment gravity flows, inclined strata representing foreset beds, and overlying topset beds deposition from fluvial processes in a delta top environment. The boulder conglomerates indicate sediment-transport on the delta top by episodic high-discharge floods.

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2022

34. Mars methane detection and variability at Gale crater

Author

the MSL Science Team, Webster, Christopher R., Mahaffy, Paul R., Atreya, Sushil K., Flesch, Gregory J., Mischna, Michael A., Meslin, Pierre-Yves, Farley, Kenneth A., Conrad, Pamela G., Christensen, Lance E., Pavlov, Alexander A., Martín-Torres, Javier, Zorzano, María-Paz, McConnochie, Timothy H., Owen, Tobias, Eigenbrode, Jennifer L., Glavin, Daniel P., Steele, Andrew, Malespin, Charles A., Archer, P. Douglas, Sutter, Brad, Coll, Patrice, Freissinet, Caroline, McKay, Christopher P., Moores, John E., Schwenzer, Susanne P., Bridges, John C., Navarro-Gonzalez, Rafael, Gellert, Ralf, and Lemmon, Mark T.

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2015

36. Is Bedout an Impact Crater? Take 2

Author

Renne, Paul R., Melosh, H. Jay, Farley, Kenneth A., Reimold, W. Uwe, Koeberl, Christian, Rampino, Michael R., Kelly, Simon P., Ivanov, Boris A., Becker, L., Poreda, R. J., Basu, A. R., Pope, K. O., Harrison, T. M., Nicholson, C., and Iasky, R.

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2004

37. Sedimentary and stratigraphic observations at the Jezero western delta front using Perseverance cameras: initial constraints on palaeoenvironments

Author

Gupta, Sanjeev, Bell, Jim F., Kanine, Oak, Tate, Christian, Caravaca, Gwénaël, Núñez, Jorge, Mangold, Nicolas, Dromart, Gilles, Le Mouélic, Stéphane, Annex, Andrew, Paar, Gerhard, Holm-Alwmark, Sanna, Rice, Melissa S., Rice, Jim, Horgan, Briony, Grotzinger, John, Maki, Justin, Hickman Lewis, Keyron, Kah, Lindah, Shuster, David L., Simon, Justin I., Gasnault, Olivier, Wiens, Roger, Maurice, Sylvestre, Stack, Kathryn, Farley, Kenneth A., Department of Earth Science and Engineering [Imperial College London], Imperial College London, Arizona State University [Tempe] (ASU), Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences [Pasadena], California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD] (APL), Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences [UMR_C 6112] (LPG), Université d'Angers (UA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Nantes université - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (Nantes univ - UFR ST), Nantes Université - pôle Sciences et technologie, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université - pôle Sciences et technologie, Nantes Université (Nantes Univ)-Nantes Université (Nantes Univ), Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE), École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Joanneum Research, Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Centre de biophysique moléculaire (CBM), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), The University of Tennessee [Knoxville], Berkeley Geochronology Center (BGC), Center for Isotope Cosmochemistry and Geochronology, NASA Johnson Space, and Europlanet

Subjects
[SDU.STU.PL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Planetology, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], [SDU.STU.ST]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Stratigraphy, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences
Abstract

International audience; NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission is seeking signs of ancient life in Jezero crater and is collecting a cache of Martian rock and soil samples for planned return to Earth by a future mission. A key exploration target for the mission is a prominent sedimentary fan deposit at the western margin of Jezero crater that has been interpretated to be a river delta that built into an ancient lake basin during the Late Noachian-Early Hesperian epochs on Mars (~3.6-3.8 Ga) [1, 2]. Long distance observations of a remnant butte (informally named Kodiak) related to the western fan demonstrated that it comprised two distinct Gilbert-type delta units [2, 3].In her approach to the western fan, Perseverance drove alongside the east-facing scarp of the western fan and arrived at a key location called Three Forks - a setting off point for delta exploration - in April 2022. Images from the Mastcam-Z and SuperCam Remote Micro-Imager instrumentsprovide new views of the stratigraphy exposed in the erosional front of the western Jezero delta; in particular, showing sections of the delta previously not visible from long distance observations and at much higher resolution. These observations provide the first direct evidence of delta geometries in the main western fan deposit. Here, we report its stratigraphy and sedimentology, which providenew constraints on the nature of the fan deposits, and therefore paleoenvironmental implications.

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2022
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45. The Notional Plan for Sample Collections by the Perseverance Rover for Mars Sample Return

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Herd, Christopher, Bosak, Tanja, Stack, Kathryn, Sun, Vivian, Gupta, Sanjeev, Shuster, David, Shkolyar, Svetlana, Weiss, Benjamin, Wadhwa, Meenakshi, Hickman-Lewis, Keyron, Siljeström, Sandra, Mayhew, Lisa, Hausrath, Elisabeth, Brown, Adrian, Williford, Kenneth, Farley, Kenneth, Herd, Christopher, Bosak, Tanja, Stack, Kathryn, Sun, Vivian, Gupta, Sanjeev, Shuster, David, Shkolyar, Svetlana, Weiss, Benjamin, Wadhwa, Meenakshi, Hickman-Lewis, Keyron, Siljeström, Sandra, Mayhew, Lisa, Hausrath, Elisabeth, Brown, Adrian, Williford, Kenneth, and Farley, Kenneth

Abstract

The NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission will collect a suite of scientifically compelling samples for return to Earth. On the basis of orbital data, the Mars 2020 science team identified two notional sample caches to study (1) the geology of Jezero crater, collected during the prime mission and (2) the ancient crust outside of Jezero crater, collected during a possible extended mission. Jezero crater geology consists of well-preserved, Early Hesperian to Late Noachian deltaic and lacustrine deposits sourced from a river system that drained Noachian terrain. The crater floor comprises at least two distinct units of sedimentary or volcanic origin whose relationship to the deltaic deposits is presently unclear. Remotely-sensed data reveal signatures of carbonate+olivine and clay minerals within crater floor and crater margin units. Samples from within Jezero that comprise the prime mission notional sample collection thus include: crater floor units; fine- and coarse-grained delta facies, the former with potential to preserve organic matter and/or biosignatures, the latter to possibly constrain the type and timing of sediment deposition; chemical sediments with the potential to preserve biosignatures; a sample of crater rim bedrock; and at least one sample of regolith. The region of southern Nili Planum, directly outside the western rim of Jezero crater, is geologically distinct from Jezero crater and contains diverse Early or even Pre-Noachian lithologies, that may contain records of early planetary differentiation, magnetism, paleoclimate and habitability. The notional sample collection from this region will include: layered and other basement rocks; megabreccias, which may represent blocks of (pre-)Noachian crust; basement-hosted hydrothermal fracture fill; olivine+carbonate rocks that are regionally significant and may be related to units within Jezero crater; and mafic cap unit rocks. The samples described are notional and may change with ongoing surface inve

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2022

46. Compositionally and density stratified igneous terrain in Jezero crater, Mars

Author

Wiens, Roger C., Udry, Arya, Beyssac, Olivier, Quantin-Nataf, Cathy, Mangold, Nicolas, Cousin, Agnès, Mandon, Lucia, Bosak, Tanja, Forni, Olivier, McLennan, Scott M., Sautter, Violaine, Brown, Adrian, Benzerara, Karim, Johnson, Jeffrey R., Mayhew, Lisa, Maurice, Sylvestre, Anderson, Ryan B., Clegg, Samuel M., Crumpler, Larry, Gabriel, Travis S. J., Gasda, Patrick, Hall, James, Horgan, Briony H. N., Kah, Linda, Legett, Carey, Madariaga, Juan Manuel, Meslin, Pierre-Yves, Ollila, Ann M., Poulet, Francois, Royer, Clement, Sharma, Shiv K., Siljeström, Sandra, Simon, Justin I., Acosta-Maeda, Tayro E., Alvarez-Llamas, Cesar, Angel, S. Michael, Arana, Gorka, Beck, Pierre, Bernard, Sylvain, Bertrand, Tanguy, Bousquet, Bruno, Castro, Kepa, Chide, Baptiste, Clavé, Elise, Cloutis, Ed, Connell, Stephanie, Dehouck, Erwin, Dromart, Gilles, Fischer, Woodward, Fouchet, Thierry, Francis, Raymond, Frydenvang, Jens, Gasnault, Olivier, Gibbons, Erin, Gupta, Sanjeev, Hausrath, Elisabeth M., Jacob, Xavier, Kalucha, Hemani, Kelly, Evan, Knutsen, Elise, Lanza, Nina, Laserna, Javier, Lasue, Jeremie, Le Mouélic, Stéphane, Leveille, Richard, Lopez-Reyes, Guillermo, Lorenz, Ralph, Manrique, Jose Antonio, Martinez-Frias, Jesus, McConnochie, Tim, Melikechi, Noureddine, Mimoun, David, Montmessin, Franck, Moros, Javier, Murdoch, Naomi, Pilleri, Paolo, Pilorget, Cedric, Pinet, Patrick, Rapin, William, Rull, Fernando, Schröder, Susanne, Shuster, David L., Smith, Rebecca J., Stott, Alexander E., Tarnas, Jesse, Turenne, Nathalie, Veneranda, Marco, Vogt, David S., Weiss, Benjamin P., Willis, Peter, Stack, Kathryn M., Williford, Kenneth H., Farley, Kenneth A., Wiens, Roger C., Udry, Arya, Beyssac, Olivier, Quantin-Nataf, Cathy, Mangold, Nicolas, Cousin, Agnès, Mandon, Lucia, Bosak, Tanja, Forni, Olivier, McLennan, Scott M., Sautter, Violaine, Brown, Adrian, Benzerara, Karim, Johnson, Jeffrey R., Mayhew, Lisa, Maurice, Sylvestre, Anderson, Ryan B., Clegg, Samuel M., Crumpler, Larry, Gabriel, Travis S. J., Gasda, Patrick, Hall, James, Horgan, Briony H. N., Kah, Linda, Legett, Carey, Madariaga, Juan Manuel, Meslin, Pierre-Yves, Ollila, Ann M., Poulet, Francois, Royer, Clement, Sharma, Shiv K., Siljeström, Sandra, Simon, Justin I., Acosta-Maeda, Tayro E., Alvarez-Llamas, Cesar, Angel, S. Michael, Arana, Gorka, Beck, Pierre, Bernard, Sylvain, Bertrand, Tanguy, Bousquet, Bruno, Castro, Kepa, Chide, Baptiste, Clavé, Elise, Cloutis, Ed, Connell, Stephanie, Dehouck, Erwin, Dromart, Gilles, Fischer, Woodward, Fouchet, Thierry, Francis, Raymond, Frydenvang, Jens, Gasnault, Olivier, Gibbons, Erin, Gupta, Sanjeev, Hausrath, Elisabeth M., Jacob, Xavier, Kalucha, Hemani, Kelly, Evan, Knutsen, Elise, Lanza, Nina, Laserna, Javier, Lasue, Jeremie, Le Mouélic, Stéphane, Leveille, Richard, Lopez-Reyes, Guillermo, Lorenz, Ralph, Manrique, Jose Antonio, Martinez-Frias, Jesus, McConnochie, Tim, Melikechi, Noureddine, Mimoun, David, Montmessin, Franck, Moros, Javier, Murdoch, Naomi, Pilleri, Paolo, Pilorget, Cedric, Pinet, Patrick, Rapin, William, Rull, Fernando, Schröder, Susanne, Shuster, David L., Smith, Rebecca J., Stott, Alexander E., Tarnas, Jesse, Turenne, Nathalie, Veneranda, Marco, Vogt, David S., Weiss, Benjamin P., Willis, Peter, Stack, Kathryn M., Williford, Kenneth H., and Farley, Kenneth A.

Abstract

Before Perseverance, Jezero crater's floor was variably hypothesized to have a lacustrine, lava, volcanic airfall, or aeolian origin. SuperCam observations in the first 286 Mars days on Mars revealed a volcanic and intrusive terrain with compositional and density stratification. The dominant lithology along the traverse is basaltic, with plagioclase enrichment in stratigraphically higher locations. Stratigraphically lower, layered rocks are richer in normative pyroxene. The lowest observed unit has the highest inferred density and is olivine-rich with coarse (1.5 millimeters) euhedral, relatively unweathered grains, suggesting a cumulate origin. This is the first martian cumulate and shows similarities to martian meteorites, which also express olivine disequilibrium. Alteration materials including carbonates, sulfates, perchlorates, hydrated silicates, and iron oxides are pervasive but low in abundance, suggesting relatively brief lacustrine conditions. Orbital observations link the Jezero floor lithology to the broader Nili-Syrtis region, suggesting that density-driven compositional stratification is a regional characteristic.

Published
2022

47. Photogeologic Map of the Perseverance Rover Field Site in Jezero Crater Constructed by the Mars 2020 Science Team

Author

Stack, Kathryn M, Williams, Nathan R, Calef, Fred, Sun, Vivian Z, Williford, Kenneth H, Farley, Kenneth A, Eide, Sigurd, Flannery, David, Hughes, Cory, Jacob, Samantha R, Kah, Linda C, Meyen, Forrest, Molina, Antonio, Nataf, Cathy Q, Rice, Melissa, Stack, Kathryn M, Williams, Nathan R, Calef, Fred, Sun, Vivian Z, Williford, Kenneth H, Farley, Kenneth A, Eide, Sigurd, Flannery, David, Hughes, Cory, Jacob, Samantha R, Kah, Linda C, Meyen, Forrest, Molina, Antonio, Nataf, Cathy Q, and Rice, Melissa

Abstract

The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landing site is located within Jezero crater, a ∼ 50 km $\sim50~\mbox{km}$ diameter impact crater interpreted to be a Noachian-aged lake basin inside the western edge of the Isidis impact structure. Jezero hosts remnants of a fluvial delta, inlet and outlet valleys, and infill deposits containing diverse carbonate, mafic, and hydrated minerals. Prior to the launch of the Mars 2020 mission, members of the Science Team collaborated to produce a photogeologic map of the Perseverance landing site in Jezero crater. Mapping was performed at a 1:5000 digital map scale using a 25 cm/pixel High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) orthoimage mosaic base map and a 1 m/pixel HiRISE stereo digital terrain model. Mapped bedrock and surficial units were distinguished by differences in relative brightness, tone, topography, surface texture, and apparent roughness. Mapped bedrock units are generally consistent with those identified in previously published mapping efforts, but this study’s map includes the distribution of surficial deposits and sub-units of the Jezero delta at a higher level of detail than previous studies. This study considers four possible unit correlations to explain the relative age relationships of major units within the map area. Unit correlations include previously published interpretations as well as those that consider more complex interfingering relationships and alternative relative age relationships. The photogeologic map presented here is the foundation for scientific hypothesis development and strategic planning for Perseverance’s exploration of Jezero crater.

Published
2022

49. The Notional Plan for Sample Collections by the Perseverance Rover for Mars Sample Return

Author

Herd, Christopher, primary, Bosak, Tanja, additional, Stack, Kathryn, additional, Sun, Vivian, additional, Gupta, Sanjeev, additional, Shuster, David, additional, Shkolyar, Svetlana, additional, Weiss, Benjamin, additional, Wadhwa, Meenakshi, additional, Hickman-Lewis, Keyron, additional, Siljeström, Sandra, additional, Mayhew, Lisa, additional, Hausrath, Elisabeth, additional, Brown, Adrian, additional, Williford, Kenneth, additional, and Farley, Kenneth, additional

Published
2022
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