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1. Quantification of Crystal Chemistry of Fe‐Mg Carbonates by Raman Microspectroscopy and Near‐Infrared Remote Sensing

Author: Pierre Beck, Olivier Beyssac, Bernard Schmitt, Clement Royer, Lucia Mandon, Eglantine Boulard, Nicolas Rividi, and Edward A. Cloutis
Subjects: Mars, asteroid, carbonate, Raman, infrared, Astronomy, QB1-991, Geology, QE1-996.5
Abstract: Abstract On Earth, carbonate minerals are widely used as recorders of the geological environments in which they formed. Here, we present a method designed to retrieve the crystal chemistry of Fe‐Mg carbonate minerals using infrared remote sensing or Raman spectroscopy. We analyzed a suite of well‐characterized Fe‐Mg carbonate minerals for which Raman spectra were obtained in two different laboratories, and IR spectra were measured in reflectance and transmission from the visible range to 25‐μm. We built calibration lines for the dependence of fundamental and harmonic vibrational modes position to the Mg# (defined as Mg# = 100 × Mg/(Mg + Fe + Ca + Mn)). These calibrations should enable retrieval of Mg# based on spectroscopic observations with a typical accuracy of 10. We discuss the framework of applicability of these calibrations and apply them to a typical CRISM spectrum of carbonates from the Nilli Fossae region of Mars.
Published: 2024
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2. Acoustic monitoring of laser-induced phase transitions in minerals: implication for Mars exploration with SuperCam

Author: Baptiste Chide, Olivier Beyssac, Michel Gauthier, Karim Benzerara, Imène Estève, Jean-Claude Boulliard, Sylvestre Maurice, and Roger C. Wiens
Subjects: Medicine, Science
Abstract: Abstract The SuperCam instrument suite onboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover uses the laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) technique to determine the elemental composition of rocks and soils of the Mars surface. It is associated with a microphone to retrieve the physical properties of the ablated targets when listening to the laser-induced acoustic signal. In this study, we report the monitoring of laser-induced mineral phase transitions in acoustic data. Sound data recorded during the laser ablation of hematite, goethite and diamond showed a sharp increase of the acoustic signal amplitude over the first laser shots. Analyses of the laser-induced craters with Raman spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy indicate that both hematite and goethite have been transformed into magnetite and that diamond has been transformed into amorphous-like carbon over the first laser shots. It is shown that these transitions are the root cause of the increase in acoustic signal, likely due to a change in target’s physical properties as the material is transformed. These results give insights into the influence of the target’s optical and thermal properties over the acoustic signal. But most importantly, in the context of the Mars surface exploration with SuperCam, as this behavior occurs only for specific phases, it demonstrates that the microphone data may help discriminating mineral phases whereas LIBS data only have limited capabilities.
Published: 2021
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3. Molecular preservation of 1.88 Ga Gunflint organic microfossils as a function of temperature and mineralogy

Author: Julien Alleon, Sylvain Bernard, Corentin Le Guillou, Johanna Marin-Carbonne, Sylvain Pont, Olivier Beyssac, Kevin D. McKeegan, and François Robert
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Thermal diagenesis is generally seen as detrimental to the preservation of organic biosignatures. Using synchrotron-based XANES data, Alleon et al.find preservation of the molecular signatures of organic microfossils from the 1.88 Ga Gunflint cherts.
Published: 2016
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4. Erratum: Molecular preservation of 1.88 Ga Gunflint organic microfossils as a function of temperature and mineralogy

Author: Julien Alleon, Sylvain Bernard, Corentin Le Guillou, Johanna Marin-Carbonne, Sylvain Pont, Olivier Beyssac, Kevin D. McKeegan, and François Robert
Subjects: Science
Abstract: Nature Communications 7 Article number: 11977 (2016); Published 17 June 2016; Updated 14 August 2017 This Article contains errors in the figure numbering and referencing that were introduced during the production process. Figures 4, 5 and 6 should be labelled as Figs 5, 6 and 4, respectively. In paragraph 9 of the Discussion section, the penultimate sentence should read ‘Yet, Triple Junction and Mink Mountain organic microfossils exhibit very similar C-XANES spectra (Fig.
Published: 2017
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5. Overview and Results From the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover's First Science Campaign on the Jezero Crater Floor

Author: Vivian Z. Sun, Kevin P. Hand, Kathryn M. Stack, Ken A. Farley, Justin I. Simon, Claire Newman, Sunanda Sharma, Yang Liu, Roger C. Wiens, Amy J. Williams, Nicholas Tosca, Sanna Alwmark, Olivier Beyssac, Adrian Brown, Fred Calef, Emily L. Cardarelli, Elise Clavé, Barbara Cohen, Andrea Corpolongo, Andrew D. Czaja, Tyler Del Sesto, Alberto Fairen, Teresa Fornaro, Thierry Fouchet, Brad Garczynski, Sanjeev Gupta, Chris D. K. Herd, Keyron Hickman-Lewis, Briony Horgan, Jeffrey Johnson, Kjartan Kinch, Tanya Kizovski, Rachel Kronyak, Robert Lange, Lucia Mandon, Sarah Milkovich, Robert Moeller, Jorge Núñez, Gerhard Paar, Guy Pyrzak, Cathy Quantin-Nataf, David L. Shuster, Sandra Siljestroem, Andrew Steele, Michael Tice, Olivier Toupet, Arya Udry, Alicia Vaughan, and Brittan Wogsland
Subjects: Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration
Abstract: The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater on 18 February 2021. After a 100-sol period of commissioning and the Ingenuity Helicopter technology demonstration, Perseverance began its first science campaign to explore the enigmatic Jezero crater floor, whose igneous or sedimentary origins have been much debated in the scientific community. This paper describes the campaign plan developed to explore the crater floor's Máaz and Séítah formations and summarizes the results of the campaign between sols 100–379. By the end of the campaign, Perseverance had traversed more than 5 km, created seven abrasion patches, and sealed nine samples and a witness tube. Analysis of remote and proximity science observations show that the Máaz and Séítah formations are igneous in origin and composed of five and two geologic members, respectively. The Séítah formation represents the olivine-rich cumulate formed from differentiation of a slowly cooling melt or magma body, and the Máaz formation likely represents a separate series of lava flows emplaced after Séítah. The Máaz and Séítah rocks also preserve evidence of multiple episodes of aqueous alteration in secondary minerals like carbonate, Fe/Mg phyllosilicates, sulfates, and perchlorate, and surficial coatings. Post-emplacement processes tilted the rocks near the Máaz-Séítah contact and substantial erosion modified the crater floor rocks to their present-day expressions. Results from this crater floor campaign, including those obtained upon return of the collected samples, will help to build the geologic history of events that occurred in Jezero crater and provide time constraints on the formation of the Jezero delta.
Published: 2023
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6. Geological, Multispectral, and Meteorological Imaging Results from the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover in Jezero Crater

Author: James F. Bell, III, Justin N. Maki, Sanna Alwmark, Bethany L. Ehlmann, Sarah A. Fagents, John P. Grotzinger, Sanjeev Gupta, Alexander Hayes, Ken E. Herkenhoff, Briony H. N. Horgan, Jeffrey R. Johnson, Kjartan B. Kinch, Mark T. Lemmon, Morten B. Madsen, Jorge I. Núñez, Gerhard Paar, Melissa Rice, James W. Rice, Jr, Nicole Schmitz, Robert Sullivan, Alicia Vaughan, Mike J. Wolff, Andreas Bechtold, Tanja Bosak, Louise E. Duflot, Alberto G. Fairén, Brad Garczynski, Ralf Jaumann, Marco Merusi, Chase Million, Eleni Ravanis, David L. Shuster, Justin Simon, Michael St. Clair, Christian Tate, Sebastian Walter, Benjamin Weiss, Alyssa M. Bailey, Tanguy Bertrand, Olivier Beyssac, Adrian J. Brown, Piluca Caballo-Perucha, Michael A. Caplinger, Christy M. Caudill, Francesca Cary, Ernest Cisneros, Edward Cloutis, Nathan Cluff, Paul Corlies, Kelsie Crawford, Sabrina Curtis, Robert Deen, Darian Dixon, Christopher Donaldson, Megan Barrington, Michelle Ficht, Stephanie Fleron, Michael Hansen, David Harker, Rachel Howson, Joshua Huggett, Samantha Jacob, Elsa Jensen, Ole B Jensen, Mohini Jodhpurkar, Jonathan Joseph, Christian Juarez, Linda C Kah, Oak Kanine, Jessica Kristensen, Tex Kubacki, Kristiana Lapo, Angela Magee, Michael Maimone, Greg L Mehall, Laura Mehall, Jess Mollerup, Daniel Viúdez-Moreiras, Kristen Paris, Kathryn E Powell, Frank Preusker, Jon Proton, Corrine Rojas, Danny Sallurday, Kim Saxton, Eva Scheller, Christina H Seeger, Mason Starr, Nathan Stein, Nathalie Turenne, Jason Van Beek, Andrew G Winhold, and Rachel Yingling
Subjects: Lunar and Planetary Science and Exploration
Abstract: Perseverance’s Mastcam-Z instrument provides high-resolution stereo and multispectral images with a unique combination of spatial resolution, spatial coverage, and wavelength coverage along the rover’s traverse in Jezero crater, Mars. Images reveal rocks consistent with an igneous (including volcanic and/or volcaniclastic) and/or impactite origin and limited aqueous alteration, including polygonally fractured rocks with weathered coatings; massive boulder-forming bedrock consisting of mafic silicates, ferric oxides, and/or iron-bearing alteration minerals; and coarsely layered outcrops dominated by olivine. Pyroxene dominates the iron-bearing mineralogy in the fine-grained regolith, while olivine dominates the coarse-grained regolith. Solar and atmospheric imaging observations show significant intra- and intersol variations in dust optical depth and water ice clouds, as well as unique examples of boundary layer vortex action from both natural (dust devil) and Ingenuity helicopter–induced dust lifting. High-resolution stereo imaging also provides geologic context for rover operations, other instrument observations, and sample selection, characterization, and confirmation.
Published: 2022
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7. Post-Landing Major Element Quantification Using SuperCam Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy

Author: Ryan B Anderson, Olivier Forni, Agnes Cousin, Roger C Wiens, Samuel M Clegg, Jens Frydenvang, Travis S J Gabriel, Ann M Ollila, Susanne Schroder, Olivier Beyssac, Erin Gibbons, David S Vogt, Elise Clave, Jose-Antonio Manrique, Carey Legett IV, Paolo Pilleri, Raymond T Newell, Joseph Sarao, Sylvestre Maurice, Gorka Arana, Karim Benzerara, Pernelle Bernardi, Sylvian Bernard, Bruno Bousquet, Adrian J Brown, Cesar-Alvarez Llamas, Baptiste Chide, Edward Cloutis, Jade Comellas, Stephanie Connell, Erwin Dehouck, Dorothea M Delapp, Ari Essunfeld, Cecile Fabre, Thierry C Fouchet, Cristina Garcia-Florentino, Laura Garcia-Gomez, Patrick Gasda, Olivier Gasnault, Elisabeth Hausrath, Nina L Lanza, Javier Laserna, Jeremie Lasue, Guillermo Lopez, Juan Manuel Madariaga, Lucia Mandon, Nicolas Mangold, Pierre-Yves Meslin, Anthony E Nelson, Horton Newsom, Adriana L Reyes-Newell, Scott Robinson, Fernando Rull, Shiv Sharma, Justin I Simon, Pablo Sobron, Imanol Torre Fernandez, Arya Udry, Dawn Venhaus, Scott M McLennan, Richard V Morris, and Bethany Ehlmann
Subjects: Geosciences (General)
Abstract: The SuperCam instrument on the PerseveranceMars 2020 rover uses a pulsed 1064 nm laser to ablate targets at a distance and conduct laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) by analyzing the light from the resulting plasma. SuperCam LIBS spectra are preprocessed to remove ambient light, noise, and the continuum signal present in LIBS observations. Prior to quantification, spectra are masked to remove noisier spectrometer regions andspectra are normalized to minimize signal fluctuations and effectsof target distance.In some cases, the spectra are also standardized or binned prior to quantification. To determine quantitative elemental compositionsof diverse geologic materials at Jezero crater, Mars, we use a suite of 1198 laboratory spectra of 334 well-characterized reference samples. The samples were selected to span a wide range of compositions and include typical silicate rocks, pure minerals (e.g.,silicates, sulfates, carbonates, oxides),more unusual compositions (e.g.,Mn oreand sodalite), andreplicates of the sintered SuperCam calibration targets (SCCTs) onboardthe rover. For each major element (SiO2, TiO2, Al2O3, FeOT, MgO, CaO, Na2O, K2O), the database was subdivided into five“folds” with similar distributions of the element of interest. One fold was held out as an independent test set, and the remaining fourfolds were used to optimize multivariate regression models relating the spectrum to the composition. We considered a variety of models, and selected several for further investigation for each element, based primarily on the root mean squared error of prediction (RMSEP) on the test set, when analyzed at 3m. In cases with several models of comparable performance at 3 m, we incorporated the SCCT performance at different distances to choose the preferred model. Shortly after landing on Mars and collecting initial spectra of geologic targets, we selected one model per element. Subsequently, with additional data from geologic targets, some models were revised to ensure results that are more consistent with geochemical constraints. The calibration discussed here is a snapshot of an ongoing effort to deliver the most accurate chemical compositions with SuperCam LIBS.
Published: 2021
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8. Aqueous alteration processes in Jezero crater, Mars—implications for organic geochemistry

Author: Eva L. Scheller, Joseph Razzell Hollis, Emily L. Cardarelli, Andrew Steele, Luther W. Beegle, Rohit Bhartia, Pamela Conrad, Kyle Uckert, Sunanda Sharma, Bethany L. Ehlmann, William J. Abbey, Sanford A. Asher, Kathleen C. Benison, Eve L. Berger, Olivier Beyssac, Benjamin L. Bleefeld, Tanja Bosak, Adrian J. Brown, Aaron S. Burton, Sergei V. Bykov, Ed Cloutis, Alberto G. Fairén, Lauren DeFlores, Kenneth A. Farley, Deidra M. Fey, Teresa Fornaro, Allison C. Fox, Marc Fries, Keyron Hickman-Lewis, William F. Hug, Joshua E. Huggett, Samara Imbeah, Ryan S. Jakubek, Linda C. Kah, Peter Kelemen, Megan R. Kennedy, Tanya Kizovski, Carina Lee, Yang Liu, Lucia Mandon, Francis M. McCubbin, Kelsey R. Moore, Brian E. Nixon, Jorge I. Núñez, Carolina Rodriguez Sanchez-Vahamonde, Ryan D. Roppel, Mitchell Schulte, Mark A. Sephton, Shiv K. Sharma, Sandra Siljeström, Svetlana Shkolyar, David L. Shuster, Justin I. Simon, Rebecca J. Smith, Kathryn M. Stack, Kim Steadman, Benjamin P. Weiss, Alyssa Werynski, Amy J. Williams, Roger C. Wiens, Kenneth H. Williford, Kathrine Winchell, Brittan Wogsland, Anastasia Yanchilina, Rachel Yingling, and Maria-Paz Zorzano
Subjects: Multidisciplinary
Abstract: The Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, Mars, in February 2021. We used the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) instrument to perform deep-ultraviolet Raman and fluorescence spectroscopy of three rocks within the crater. We identify evidence for two distinct ancient aqueous environments at different times. Reactions with liquid water formed carbonates in an olivine-rich igneous rock. A sulfate-perchlorate mixture is present in the rocks, which probably formed by later modifications of the rocks by brine. Fluorescence signatures consistent with aromatic organic compounds occur throughout these rocks and are preserved in minerals related to both aqueous environments.
Published: 2022

9. The SuperCam Instrument Suite on the NASA Mars 2020 Rover: Body Unit and Combined System Tests

Author: Roger C. Wiens, Sylvestre Maurice, Scott H. Robinson, Anthony E. Nelson, Philippe Cais, Pernelle Bernardi, Raymond T. Newell, Sam Clegg, Shiv K. Sharma, Steven Storms, Jonathan Deming, Darrel Beckman, Ann M. Ollila, Olivier Gasnault, Ryan B. Anderson, Yves André, S. Michael Angel, Gorka Arana, Elizabeth Auden, Pierre Beck, Joseph Becker, Karim Benzerara, Sylvain Bernard, Olivier Beyssac, Louis Borges, Bruno Bousquet, Kerry Boyd, Michael Caffrey, Jeffrey Carlson, Kepa Castro, Jorden Celis, Baptiste Chide, Kevin Clark, Edward Cloutis, Elizabeth C. Cordoba, Agnes Cousin, Magdalena Dale, Lauren Deflores, Dorothea Delapp, Muriel Deleuze, Matthew Dirmyer, Christophe Donny, Gilles Dromart, M. George Duran, Miles Egan, Joan Ervin, Cecile Fabre, Amaury Fau, Woodward Fischer, Olivier Forni, Thierry Fouchet, Reuben Fresquez, Jens Frydenvang, Denine Gasway, Ivair Gontijo, John Grotzinger, Xavier Jacob, Sophie Jacquinod, Jeffrey R. Johnson, Roberta A. Klisiewicz, James Lake, Nina Lanza, Javier Laserna, Jeremie Lasue, Stéphane Le Mouélic, Carey Legett, Richard Leveille, Eric Lewin, Guillermo Lopez-Reyes, Ralph Lorenz, Eric Lorigny, Steven P. Love, Briana Lucero, Juan Manuel Madariaga, Morten Madsen, Soren Madsen, Nicolas Mangold, Jose Antonio Manrique, J. P. Martinez, Jesus Martinez-Frias, Kevin P. McCabe, Timothy H. McConnochie, Justin M. McGlown, Scott M. McLennan, Noureddine Melikechi, Pierre-Yves Meslin, John M. Michel, David Mimoun, Anupam Misra, Gilles Montagnac, Franck Montmessin, Valerie Mousset, Naomi Murdoch, Horton Newsom, Logan A. Ott, Zachary R. Ousnamer, Laurent Pares, Yann Parot, Rafal Pawluczyk, C. Glen Peterson, Paolo Pilleri, Patrick Pinet, Gabriel Pont, Francois Poulet, Cheryl Provost, Benjamin Quertier, Heather Quinn, William Rapin, Jean-Michel Reess, Amy H. Regan, Adriana L. Reyes-Newell, Philip J. Romano, Clement Royer, Fernando Rull, Benigno Sandoval, Joseph H. Sarrao, Violaine Sautter, Marcel J. Schoppers, Susanne Schröder, Daniel Seitz, Terra Shepherd, Pablo Sobron, Bruno Dubois, Vishnu Sridhar, Michael J. Toplis, Imanol Torre-Fdez, Ian A. Trettel, Mark Underwood, Andres Valdez, Jacob Valdez, Dawn Venhaus, and Peter Willis
Published: 2020
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10. Mineralogy, morphology, and emplacement history of the Maaz formation on the Jezero crater floor from orbital and rover observations

Author: Briony Heather Noelle Horgan, Arya Udry, Meiissa S Rice, Sanna Alwmark, Hans E. F. Amundsen, James F. Bell III, Larry S. Crumpler, Bradley Garczynski, Jeffrey R. Johnson, Kjartan Münster Kinch, Lucia Mandon, Marco Merusi, Chase Million, Jorge I. Núñez, Patrick S. Russell, Justin I. Simon, Michael St. Clair, Kathryn Stack Morgan, Alicia Fallacaro Vaughan, Brittan Valhalla Wogsland, Andrew Michael Annex, Andreas Bechtold, Tor Berger, Olivier Beyssac, Adrian Jon Brown, Edward Cloutis, Barbara A Cohen, Sarah Fagents, Linda C Kah, Ken Farley, David Timothy Flannery, Sanjeev Gupta, Sein-Erik Hamran, Yang Liu, Gerhard Paar, Cathy Quantin-Nataf, Nicolas Randazzo, Eleni Maria Ravanis, Steven F Sholes, David Shuster, Vivian Zheng Sun, Christian Tate, Nicholas Tosca, Meenakshi Wadhwa, and Roger C. Wiens
Published: 2022

11. A DELTA-LAKE SYSTEM AT JEZERO CRATER (MARS) FROM LONG DISTANCE OBSERVATIONS

Author: Sanjeev Gupta, Nicolas Mangold, Bell, Jim F., Olivier Gasnault, Tarnas, J. D., Sholes, S., Briony Horgan, Cathy Quantin-Nataf, Brown, A., Stéphane Le Mouélic, Roberta Yingst, Olivier Beyssac, Bosak, T., Fred Calef, Gwénaël CARAVACA, Ehlmann, B., Kenneth Farley, Grotzinger, John P., Hickman-Lewis, K., Holm-Alwmark, S., Kah, Linda C., Kanine, M., Martinez-Frias, J., Mclennan, Scott M., Sylvestre Maurice, Nuñez, J., Ollila, A. M., Gerhard Paar, Paolo Pilleri, Rice, J., Rice, M., Simon, J., Shuster, D., Katie Stack‐morgan, Vivian Sun, Treiman, Allan H., Weiss, B., Wiens, Roger C., Williams, A., Williams, N., Williford, Kenneth H., Department of Earth Science and Engineering [Imperial College London], Imperial College London, 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), 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), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Purdue University [West Lafayette], 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), Plancius Research LLC, Planetary Science Institute [Tucson] (PSI), Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), The Natural History Museum [London] (NHM), Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Niels Bohr Institute [Copenhagen] (NBI), Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), Lund University [Lund], Natural History Museum of Denmark, The University of Tennessee [Knoxville], Instituto de Geociencias [Madrid] (IGEO), Universidad Complutense de Madrid = Complutense University of Madrid [Madrid] (UCM)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Department of Geosciences [Stony Brook], Stony Brook University [SUNY] (SBU), State University of New York (SUNY)-State University of New York (SUNY), JHUAPL, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Joanneum Research, College of Engineering and Science [Louisiana], Louisiana Tech University, Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES), NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), NASA-NASA, Department of Earth and Planetary Science [UC Berkeley] (EPS), University of California [Berkeley] (UC Berkeley), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Lunar and Planetary Institute [Houston] (LPI), Department of Geological Sciences [Gainesville] (UF|Geological), University of Florida [Gainesville] (UF), and Lunar and Planetary Institute
Subjects: 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, Mars, sedimentolgoy, stratigraphy, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences
Abstract: International audience; Orbital and rover observations of relictgeomorphic 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. A prominent sedimentary fan deposit at the westernmargin of Jezero crater has been inferred 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, 3]. The Perseverance rover landed on 18 February 2021 ~2.2 km from the western fan. During the early phase of mission investigations, highresolution images obtained from the Mastcam-Z camera and from the Remote Micro-Imager of the SuperCaminstrument provided the first ground-based observations of the western fan and an associated remnant outcrop, named Kodiak. Here, we report its sedimentology, which provide new constraints on the nature of the fan deposits, and their paleoenvironmental implications (4).
Published: 2022

12. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE VARIATIONS IN FLUVIAL INPUT WITHIN JEZERO CRATER FROM PERSEVERANCE ROVER OBSERVATIONS

Author: Nicolas Mangold, Sanjeev Gupta, Gwénaël CARAVACA, Olivier Gasnault, Gilles Dromart, Tarnas, J., Sholes, S., Horgan, B., Cathy Quantin-Nataf, Brown, A., Stéphane Le Mouélic, Yingst, R., Bell, J., Olivier Beyssac, Bosak, T., Calef, F., Ehlmann, B., Farley, K., Grotzinger, J., Hickman- Lewis, K., Holm-Alwmark, S., Kah, L., Martinez-Frias, J., Mclennan, S., Maurice, S., Nuñez, J., Ollila, A., Pilleri, P., Rice, J., Rice, M., Simon, J., Shuster, D., Stack, K., Sun, V., Treiman, A., Weiss, B., Wiens, R., Williams, A., Williams, N., Williford, K., 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, 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 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), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Purdue University [West Lafayette], Plancius Research LLC, Planetary Science Institute [Tucson] (PSI), Arizona State University [Tempe] (ASU), Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), The Natural History Museum [London] (NHM), Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna [Bologna] (UNIBO), Niels Bohr Institute [Copenhagen] (NBI), Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), Lund University [Lund], Natural History Museum of Denmark, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences [Knoxville], The University of Tennessee [Knoxville], Instituto de Geociencias [Madrid] (IGEO), Universidad Complutense de Madrid = Complutense University of Madrid [Madrid] (UCM)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Department of Geosciences [Stony Brook], Stony Brook University [SUNY] (SBU), State University of New York (SUNY)-State University of New York (SUNY), JHUAPL, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), College of Science & Engineering (College of Science & Engineering), University of Texas at Austin [Austin], Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science (ARES), NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), NASA-NASA, University of California [Berkeley] (UC Berkeley), University of California (UC), Lunar and Planetary Institute [Houston] (LPI), Department of Geological Sciences [Gainesville] (UF|Geological), University of Florida [Gainesville] (UF), and Lunar and Planetary Institute
Subjects: 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, Mars, sedimentology, stratigraphy, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences
Abstract: International audience; The Perseverance rover landed on the floor of Jezero crater on 18 February 2021. The landing site, named “Octavia E. Butler” is located ~2.2 km from the SE-facing erosional scarp of the western fan deposits, which are of strong interest for the mission [1-2]. Images obtained using the Mastcam-Z camera and the Remote Micro-Imager (RMI) of the SuperCam instrument provided the first Mars ground-based observations of this western fan (Fig. 1). At the distance images were taken, the RMI images offer a pixel resolution of 2.2 cm, thus enabling identification of objects of typically 7-8 cm (3-4 pixels). Observations of the residual butte Kodiak confirmed the presence of a lake within Jezero crater, but also showed that the lake deduced from the deltaic architecture at Kodiak had a level ~100 m lower than expected (-2495/-2500 m), and was thus a closed system for a significant period [3]. In addition, the coarser deposits (boulder conglomerates and pebbly sandstones) observed near the top of all of the scarps are typical of fluvial floods with high energy, reflecting a change in hydrology of the fluvial system. Here, we focus on the hydrological characteristics of fluvial deposits observed within the scarps of the delta, both as topsets and as boulder conglomerates.
Published: 2022

13. Welcome to Raman Spectroscopy: Successes, Challenges, and Pitfalls

Author: Jill D. Pasteris and Olivier Beyssac
Subjects: symbols.namesake, Materials science, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, 13. Climate action, Geochemistry and Petrology, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), symbols, Nanotechnology, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, Raman spectroscopy, 01 natural sciences, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: Geoscientists quickly recognized the broad applicability of Raman micro-probe spectroscopy to the Earth and planetary sciences, especially after commercially built microprobe instruments became available in the early 1980s. Raman spectra are sensitive to even minor (chemical or structural) perturbations within chemical bonds in (even amorphous) solids, liquids, and gases and can, thus, help identify, characterize, and differentiate between individual minerals, fluid inclusions, glasses, carbonaceous materials, solid solution phases, strain in minerals, and dissolved species in multi-component solutions. The articles in this issue explore how Raman spectroscopy has deepened and broadened our understanding of geological and extraterrestrial materials and processes.
Published: 2020

14. The SuperCam infrared spectrometer for the perseverance rover of the Mars2020 mission

Author: Napoléon Nguyen-Tuong, Cathy Quantin, Clément Royer, Vartan Arslanyan, Rafik Hassen-Khodja, Cyrille Blanchard, Jean-Michel Reess, Timothy H. McConnochie, Sophie Jacquinod, Claude Collin, Mehdi Beuzit, L. Mandon, Jérôme Parisot, Christophe Montaron, François Poulet, Olivier Forni, Sylvestre Maurice, Thierry Fouchet, Franck Montmessin, Stéphane Le Mouélic, Didier Zeganadin, P. Pilleri, Olivier Humeau, Cedric Pilorget, Jeffrey R. Johnsson, Agnes Cousin, Sadok Abbaki, Ourdya Achelhi, Alexandre Jeanneau, Olivier Beyssac, Laurent Lapauw, P. Bernardi, Frédéric Chapron, Pierre Beck, Claudine Colon, Olivier Gasnault, Marion Bonafous, Patricia Nibert, Bruno Dubois, Vincent Hamm, Roger C. Wiens, Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique = Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics (LESIA), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), 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 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), Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG ), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Météo-France -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Météo-France, Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-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), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD] (APL), Department of Astronomy [College Park], University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System-University of Maryland System, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement [Lyon] (LGL-TPE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique [UMR 6112] (LPG), Université d'Angers (UA)-Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), and Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Infrared spectroscopy, FOS: Physical sciences, Mars, 01 natural sciences, Impact crater, 0103 physical sciences, Spectral resolution, Spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Radiometric calibration, Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM), 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Remote sensing, Martian, Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP), Spectrometer, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mars Exploration Program, [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Space and Planetary Science, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], mineralogy, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Geology, Astrophysics - Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract: We present the Infrared spectrometer of SuperCam Instrument Suite that enables the Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover to study remotely the Martian mineralogy within the Jezero crater. The SuperCam IR spectrometer is designed to acquire spectra in the 1.3-2.6 $\mu$m domain at a spectral resolution ranging from 5 to 20~nm. The field-of-view of 1.15 mrad, is coaligned with the boresights of the other remote-sensing techniques provided by SuperCam: laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy, remote time-resolved Raman and luminescence spectroscopies, and visible reflectance spectroscopy, and micro-imaging. The IR spectra can be acquired from the robotic-arm workspace to long-distances, in order to explore the mineralogical diversity of the Jezero crater, guide the Perseverance Rover in its sampling task, and to document the samples' environment. We present the design, the performance, the radiometric calibration, and the anticipated operations at the surface of Mars., Comment: Accepted for publication in Icarus
Published: 2022

15. The dynamic atmospheric and aeolian environment of Jezero crater, Mars

Author: Claire E. Newman, Ricardo Hueso, Mark T. Lemmon, Asier Munguira, Álvaro Vicente-Retortillo, Víctor Apestigue, Germán M. Martínez, Daniel Toledo, Rob Sullivan, Ken E. Herkenhoff, Manuel de la Torre Juárez, Mark I. Richardson, Alexander E. Stott, Naomi Murdoch, Agustín Sanchez-Lavega, Michael J. Wolff, Ignacio Arruego, Eduardo Sebastián, Sara Navarro, Javier Gómez-Elvira, Leslie Tamppari, Michael D. Smith, Alain Lepinette, Daniel Viúdez-Moreiras, Ari-Matti Harri, Maria Genzer, Maria Hieta, Ralph D. Lorenz, Pan Conrad, Felipe Gómez, Timothy H. McConnochie, David Mimoun, Christian Tate, Tanguy Bertrand, James F. Bell, Justin N. Maki, Jose Antonio Rodriguez-Manfredi, Roger C. Wiens, Baptiste Chide, Sylvestre Maurice, Maria-Paz Zorzano, Luis Mora, Mariah M. Baker, Don Banfield, Jorge Pla-Garcia, Olivier Beyssac, Adrian Brown, Ben Clark, Franck Montmessin, Erik Fischer, Priyaben Patel, Teresa del Río-Gaztelurrutia, Thierry Fouchet, Raymond Francis, Scott D. Guzewich, Centro de Astrobiología del Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial y CSIC, MDM-2017-0737, Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (MINECO), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), Gobierno Vasco, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Aeolis Research, Universidad del Pais Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea [Espagne] (UPV/EHU), Space Science Institute [Boulder] (SSI), Centro de Astrobiologia [Madrid] (CAB), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Lunar and Planetary Institute [Houston] (LPI), University of Michigan [Ann Arbor], University of Michigan System, Cornell University [New York], Astrogeology Science Center [Flagstaff], United States Geological Survey [Reston] (USGS), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD] (APL), Carnegie Institution for Science, University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System, Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique = Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics (LESIA), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Arizona State University [Tempe] (ASU), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Purdue University [West Lafayette], 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), Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Plancius Research LLC, PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University College of London [London] (UCL), and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
Subjects: Multidisciplinary, Aeolian, Atmosphere, rems, Mars 2020, large eddy simulation, Mars, Dust, earth, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Clouds, bagnold dunes, dust devils, thermal tides, surface, wind, gale crater, convection
Abstract: This article has a correction. Please see: Erratum for the Research Article: “The dynamic atmospheric and aeolian environment of Jezero crater, Mars” - 10 February 2023 Despite the importance of sand and dust to Mars geomorphology, weather, and exploration, the processes that move sand and that raise dust to maintain Mars’ ubiquitous dust haze and to produce dust storms have not been well quantified in situ, with missions lacking either the necessary sensors or a sufficiently active aeolian environment. Perseverance rover’s novel environmental sensors and Jezero crater’s dusty environment remedy this. In Perseverance’s first 216 sols, four convective vortices raised dust locally, while, on average, four passed the rover daily, over 25% of which were significantly dusty (“dust devils”). More rarely, dust lifting by nonvortex wind gusts was produced by daytime convection cells advected over the crater by strong regional daytime upslope winds, which also control aeolian surface features. One such event covered 10 times more area than the largest dust devil, suggesting that dust devils and wind gusts could raise equal amounts of dust under nonstorm conditions. We gratefully acknowledge the huge effort by the entire Mars 2020 team to meet our launch date despite the COVID-19 pandemic, to land and deploy instruments successfully in Jezero crater, and to conduct operations on the surface of Mars since February 2021. This paper arose from discussions within the Mars 2020 Atmospheres Working Group but would not have been possible without the tremendous contributions of everyone involved in Mars 2020 operations. We wish to especially pay tribute to the many team members based in Europe who regularly work through the night as MEDA or SuperCam Payload Uplink and Downlink Leads (PULs/PDLs) or in other roles and to all those who had shifts as Atmospheres Working Group representatives during this period. Last, we gratefully acknowledge the very helpful and constructive comments from both anonymous reviewers. Funding: R.H., A.S.-L., A.M., and T.d.R.-G. are supported by Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation project PID2019-109467GB-I00 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033/ and Grupos Gobierno Vasco IT1366-19. I.A., D.T., and V.A. are supported by the Spanish National Research, Development, and Innovation Program through the grants RTI2018-099825-B-C31, ESP2016-80320-C2-1-R, and ESP2014-54256-C4-3-R. L.M., S.N., and J.G.-E. are supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, projects ESP2014-54256-C4-1-R and AYA2015-65041-P; the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation, and Universities, projects ESP2016-79612-C3-1-R, ESP2016-80320-C2-1-R, RTI2018-098728-B-C31, and RTI2018-099825-B-C31; and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation’s Centre for the Development of Industrial Technology, projects RTI2018-098728-B-C31 and RTI2018-099825-B-C31. Á.V.-R. and M.-P.Z. are supported by Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) project no. MDM-2017-0737 Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu”–Centro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC). M.-P.Z. is supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, PID2019-104205GB-C21. M.M.B. and M.-P.Z. are supported by NASA’s Mars 2020 Participating Scientist Program. All other authors were supported by funding from the Mars 2020 mission, part of the NASA Mars Exploration Program. Work by C.E.N. was additionally funded by the InSight Participating Scientist Program.A portion of this work was performed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with NASA and funding by SMD, GCD, and STMD. Peerreview
Published: 2022

16. Impact dynamics of the L chondrites' parent asteroid

Author: Marine Ciocco, Mathieu Roskosz, Béatrice Doisneau, Olivier Beyssac, Smail Mostefaoui, Laurent Remusat, Hugues Leroux, Matthieu Gounelle, Cosmochimie [IMPMC] (IMPMC_COSMO), Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Research On Carbon-rich Key Samples [IMPMC] (IMPMC_ROCKS), Unité Matériaux et Transformations - UMR 8207 (UMET), Centrale Lille-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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), and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille (ENSCL)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Geophysics, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Space and Planetary Science, [PHYS.COND.CM-MS]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Materials Science [cond-mat.mtrl-sci], [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph], [CHIM.MATE]Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], [SDU.OTHER]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Other
Abstract: International audience; The dynamics of collisional events have been studied for three highly shocked L chondrites (Tenham, Sixiangkou, and Acfer 040). Crystal growth rates of high-pressure polymorphs of olivines and pyroxenes and diffusion-driven redistribution of Mn, Ca, Fe, and Na associated with these polymorphic transitions were studied independently. These two approaches were then applied on the same samples, and for meteorites that underwent different collisional histories. The relevance of the use of pyroxene polymorphs (e.g., akimotoite) is demonstrated. Combined analysis of the exact same ringwoodite and akimotoite crystals by scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and NanoSIMS demonstrate that while STEM has a better lateral resolution, the 40 nm maximum resolution of the NanoSIMS is sufficient to distinguish and analyze diffusion profiles. With STEM chemical and structural information concerning the nucleation mechanisms of ringwoodite and akimotoite, the concentration profiles derived from NanoSIMS images were used to derive the shock pulse duration and impactor size for these three meteorites. The two approaches (crystal growth kinetics and elemental diffusion) provide comparable durations assuming that diffusion coefficients are carefully selected. We obtain shock time scales of 1, 7, and 4 s for Tenham, Sixiangkou, and Acfer 040, respectively. Corresponding impactor sizes are also calculated, and the results point toward either (i) an early separation of the L chondrites from the parent body, and secondary impacts resulting in the observed meteorites or (ii) the meteorites all originate from different depths in the parent body.
Published: 2022

17. Revised tectono-stratigraphic scheme for the Scandinavian Caledonides and its implications for our understanding of the Scandian orogeny

Author: Johannes Jakob, Torgeir B. Andersen, Geoffroy Mohn, Hans Jørgen Kjøll, and Olivier Beyssac
Abstract: The Scandinavian Caledonides formed during the continental collision between Baltica and Laurentia. During the collision, a complex nappe stack was thrust over the Baltican continental margin. The orogen can be subdivided into segments based on architectural differences within the Scandian nappes. The southern and central segments of the orogen link up in the Gudbrandsdalen area in south-central Norway. Alpine-type metaperidotite-bearing metasedimentary complexes occur in the southern and central segments and can be traced continuously along the strike of the orogen from one into the other segment. Traditionally, these units have been assigned to different tectono-stratigraphic levels, one below the Middle Allochthon and one above the Middle Allochthon. Here, we trace the Alpine-type metaperidotite-bearing units from Bergen to Esandsjøen and show that these units exhibit a common geologic and metamorphic history, consistent with the metaperidotite-bearing units representing a single tectonic unit. We suggest that the metaperidotite-bearing units can be used as a “marker level” to revise the tectono-stratigraphy of the Gudbrandsdalen and adjacent areas. The tectono-stratigraphic revisions imply that the Scandian nappe stack consists of seven tectono-stratigraphic levels that can be traced throughout the southern and central segments of the Scandinavian Caledonides. Moreover, the revision of the tectono-stratigraphy and new U-Pb geochronology data also suggest a revision of the timing of the succession of tectonic events leading up to the Scandian continental collision. The available evidence indicates that Baltica-derived tectonic units collided with the Iapetan/Laurentian subduction complexes as early as ca. 450 Ma. The initial collision was followed by in-sequence nappe formation of Baltican-derived units, which occurred contemporaneously with the opening of a marginal basin in the upper plate. After the arrival of thick, buoyant, unthinned Baltican crust at the trench, the main zone of convergence stepped outboard, the marginal basins closed, and those basins were thrust out-of-sequence over the previously assembled nappe stack.
Published: 2022

18. Geological, multispectral, and meteorological imaging results from the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover in Jezero crater

Author: James F. Bell, Justin N. Maki, Sanna Alwmark, Bethany L. Ehlmann, Sarah A. Fagents, John P. Grotzinger, Sanjeev Gupta, Alexander Hayes, Ken E. Herkenhoff, Briony H. N. Horgan, Jeffrey R. Johnson, Kjartan B. Kinch, Mark T. Lemmon, Morten B. Madsen, Jorge I. Núñez, Gerhard Paar, Melissa Rice, James W. Rice, Nicole Schmitz, Robert Sullivan, Alicia Vaughan, Mike J. Wolff, Andreas Bechtold, Tanja Bosak, Louise E. Duflot, Alberto G. Fairén, Brad Garczynski, Ralf Jaumann, Marco Merusi, Chase Million, Eleni Ravanis, David L. Shuster, Justin Simon, Michael St. Clair, Christian Tate, Sebastian Walter, Benjamin Weiss, Alyssa M. Bailey, Tanguy Bertrand, Olivier Beyssac, Adrian J. Brown, Piluca Caballo-Perucha, Michael A. Caplinger, Christy M. Caudill, Francesca Cary, Ernest Cisneros, Edward A. Cloutis, Nathan Cluff, Paul Corlies, Kelsie Crawford, Sabrina Curtis, Robert Deen, Darian Dixon, Christopher Donaldson, Megan Barrington, Michelle Ficht, Stephanie Fleron, Michael Hansen, David Harker, Rachel Howson, Joshua Huggett, Samantha Jacob, Elsa Jensen, Ole B. Jensen, Mohini Jodhpurkar, Jonathan Joseph, Christian Juarez, Linda C. Kah, Oak Kanine, Jessica Kristensen, Tex Kubacki, Kristiana Lapo, Angela Magee, Michael Maimone, Greg L. Mehall, Laura Mehall, Jess Mollerup, Daniel Viúdez-Moreiras, Kristen Paris, Kathryn E. Powell, Frank Preusker, Jon Proton, Corrine Rojas, Danny Sallurday, Kim Saxton, Eva Scheller, Christiana H. Seeger, Mason Starr, Nathan Stein, Nathalie Turenne, Jason Van Beek, Andrew G. Winhold, and Rachel Yingling
Subjects: Multidisciplinary, OPTICAL DEPTH, IMAGER, Mastcam-Z, Multispectral, Mars 2020, 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::520 Astronomie::520 Astronomie und zugeordnete Wissenschaften, CLOUDS, Mars, Geology, Perseverance, WIND, VIKING, Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, Imaging, MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE, results, Jezero crater, SAND, VENTIFACTS, DUST AEROSOL, SYSTEM
Abstract: Perseverance’s Mastcam-Z instrument provides high-resolution stereo and multispectral images with a unique combination of spatial resolution, spatial coverage, and wavelength coverage along the rover’s traverse in Jezero crater, Mars. Images reveal rocks consistent with an igneous (including volcanic and/or volcaniclastic) and/or impactite origin and limited aqueous alteration, including polygonally fractured rocks with weathered coatings; massive boulder-forming bedrock consisting of mafic silicates, ferric oxides, and/or iron-bearing alteration minerals; and coarsely layered outcrops dominated by olivine. Pyroxene dominates the iron-bearing mineralogy in the fine-grained regolith, while olivine dominates the coarse-grained regolith. Solar and atmospheric imaging observations show significant intra- and intersol variations in dust optical depth and water ice clouds, as well as unique examples of boundary layer vortex action from both natural (dust devil) and Ingenuity helicopter–induced dust lifting. High-resolution stereo imaging also provides geologic context for rover operations, other instrument observations, and sample selection, characterization, and confirmation.
Published: 2022

19. Time-resolved Raman and luminescence spectroscopy of synthetic REE-doped hydroxylapatites and natural apatites

Author: Amaury Fau, Olivier Beyssac, Michel Gauthier, Gérard Panczer, Olivier Gasnault, Pierre-Yves Meslin, Sylvain Bernard, Sylvestre Maurice, Olivier Forni, Jean-Claude Boulliard, Françoise Bosc, Christophe Drouet, Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Lumière Matière [Villeurbanne] (ILM), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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), Centre interuniversitaire de recherche et d'ingenierie des matériaux (CIRIMAT), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université de Toulouse (UT), Spectroscopies optiques des matériaux verres, amorphes et à nanoparticules (SOPRANO), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), 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)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-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), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, and Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-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)
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, [CHIM.INOR]Chemical Sciences/Inorganic chemistry, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, REE, time-resolved spectroscopy, Geophysics, [SDU.STU.PL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Planetology, Geochemistry and Petrology, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], apatite, luminescence, Raman, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, [SDU.STU.MI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Mineralogy
Abstract: International audience; Using continuous and time-resolved spectroscopy, we investigate Raman and luminescence signals from synthetic hydroxylapatites doped with trivalent REE including Dy 3+ , Eu 3+ , Nd 3+ , and Sm 3+ , as well as REE in natural apatites, with laser excitations at 532 nm and 785 nm. We demonstrate that time-resolved spectroscopy is an extremely efficient method to tone down the luminescence from Raman spectra or, alternatively, to investigate the luminescence signal without the interference from the Raman contribution. Time-resolved luminescence spectroscopy is found to be a powerful technique for generating specific high-quality luminescence spectra for the REE emission activators in apatites by using appropriate combinations of delay and gate width for the time synchronization of the laser pulse and ICCD detector. This allows for the unambiguous detection and identification of the activators by avoiding the overlapping of various emission signals in the luminescence spectra. This is particularly useful in the case of natural samples, which often have several activators for luminescence. In the case of synthetic REE-doped apatites, a quenching process for luminescence due to activator concentration is seen for Eu 3+ and Sm 3+ , i.e. the higher the concentration, the shorter the luminescence decay time. The interpretation of luminescence decay time in natural apatites is promising but more complex because of energy transfers between the various luminescence activators present in the crystal lattice. Luminescence is a powerful technique for detecting the presence of REE in apatites down to ppm levels, though quantifying the concentration is still a challenge.
Published: 2022

20. First Sounds from Mars

Author: sylvestre Maurice, Baptiste Chide, Naomi Murdoch, Ralph Lorenz, David Mimoun, Roger Wiens, Alexander Stott, Xavier Jacob, Tanguy Bertrand, Franck Montmessin, Nina Lanza, Cesar Alvarez Llamas, S. M. Angel, M. Aung, J. Balaram, Olivier Beyssac, Agnès Cousin, Greg Delory, Olivier Forni, Thierry Fouchet, Olivier Gasnault, Havard Grip, Mike hecht, Jeff Hoffman, Javier Laserna, Jérémie Lasue, Justin Maki, John McClean, Pierre-Yves Meslin, Stéphane Le Mouélic, Asier Munguira, Claire Newman, Jose Rodriguez-Manfredi, Javier Moros, Paolo Pilleri, Susanne Schroeder, Manuel de la Torre, Ann Ollila, Thoedore Tzanetos, Ken Farley, Kathryn Stack, and Ken Williford
Abstract: The authors have requested that this preprint be removed from Research Square.
Published: 2021

21. Understanding the Chemistry of the Rocks at Jezero crater, Mars, through the Combined Use of SuperCam Spectroscopic and Optical Techniques

Author: Juan Manuel Madariaga, Roger Wiens, Gorka Arana, Violaine Sautter, Karim Benzerara, Arya Udry, Olivier Beyssac, Lucia Mandon, Olivier Gasnault, Jeffrey Johnson, Ann Ollila, Kepa Castro, Agnes Cousin, Sylvestre Maurice, Samuel Clegg, Ryan Anderson, Tanja Bosak, Pierre Beck, Thierry Fouchet, Svetlana Shkolyar, Edward Cloutis, Cathy Quantin-Nataf, Imanol Torre Fernandez, Clément Royer, Chip Legett, and Paolo Pilleri
Published: 2021

22. Perseverance rover reveals an ancient delta-lake system and flood deposits at Jezero crater, Mars

Author: C. Quantin-Nataf, Keyron Hickman-Lewis, Adrian J. Brown, Tanja Bosak, Scott M. McLennan, David L. Shuster, Kenneth H. Williford, R. A. Yingst, Kenneth A. Farley, Benjamin P. Weiss, James F. Bell, Sylvestre Maurice, Amy J. Williams, Linda C. Kah, S. F. Sholes, Gilles Dromart, Vivian Z. Sun, Justin I. Simon, S. Holm-Alwmark, Jorge I. Nunez, Olivier Gasnault, Sunetra Gupta, Ann Ollila, Melissa S. Rice, Allan H. Treiman, K. M. Stack, John P. Grotzinger, N. Mangold, J. Martinez-Frias, Bethany L. Ehlmann, Roger C. Wiens, J. W. Rice, Olivier Beyssac, P. Pilleri, Fred Calef, Briony Horgan, J. D. Tarnas, Nathan R. Williams, S. Le Mouélic, Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique [UMR 6112] (LPG), Université d'Angers (UA)-Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement [Lyon] (LGL-TPE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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), 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), and 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)
Subjects: Delta, Hydrology Geomorphology fluvial 1625, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Geochemistry, [SDU.ASTR.EP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP], Mars, 01 natural sciences, Jezero crater, [SDU.STU.PL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Planetology, Impact crater, Margin (machine learning), 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, CORINTH, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, ARCHITECTURE, Multidisciplinary, Flood myth, ORIGIN, Mars Exploration Program, SCIENCE, Sedimentology, 13. Climate action, RIFT, Sedimentary rock, Geology
Abstract: Perseverance images of a delta on Mars The Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, Mars, in February 2021. Earlier orbital images showed that the crater contains an ancient river delta that was deposited by water flowing into a lake billions of years ago. Mangold et al . analyzed rover images taken shortly after landing that show distant cliff faces at the edge of the delta. The exposed stratigraphy and sizes of boulders allowed them to determine the past lake level and water discharge rates. An initially steady flow transitioned into intermittent floods as the planet dried out. This history of the delta’s geology provides context for the rest of the mission and improves our understanding of Mars’ ancient climate. —KTS
Published: 2021

23. Integrative analysis of the mineralogical and chemical composition of modern microbialites from ten Mexican lakes: What do we learn about their formation?

Author: Karim Benzerara, Purificación López-García, Elodie Muller, David Moreira, Nina Zeyen, Damien Daval, Christophe Thomazo, Elodie Duprat, Rosaluz Tavera, Olivier Beyssac, Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'Hydrologie et de Géochimie de Strasbourg (LHyGeS), Ecole et Observatoire des Sciences de la Terre (EOST), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Nationale du Génie de l'Eau et de l'Environnement de Strasbourg (ENGEES)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École Nationale du Génie de l'Eau et de l'Environnement de Strasbourg (ENGEES), Biogéosciences [UMR 6282] [Dijon] (BGS), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-AgroSup Dijon - Institut National Supérieur des Sciences Agronomiques, de l'Alimentation et de l'Environnement-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Universitaire de France (IUF), Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (M.E.N.E.S.R.), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Ecologie Systématique et Evolution (ESE), AgroParisTech-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Nationale du Génie de l'Eau et de l'Environnement de Strasbourg (ENGEES)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Strasbourg (UNISTRA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Biogéosciences [UMR 6282] (BGS), Université de Bourgogne (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México = National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and ANR-18-CE02-0013,Microbialites,Déterminants biogéochimiques de la formation des microbialites(2018)
Subjects: (Mg-)calcite, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, REE+Y, Dolomite, Geochemistry, alkalinity, engineering.material, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, aragonite, chemistry.chemical_compound, monohydrocalcite, Geochemistry and Petrology, hydromagnesite, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Calcite, Aragonite, Trace element, microbialites, Authigenic, 6. Clean water, Diagenesis, Monohydrocalcite, crater lake, chemistry, 13. Climate action, kerolite, [SDE]Environmental Sciences, engineering, Carbonate
Abstract: International audience; Interpreting the environmental conditions under which ancient microbialites formed relies upon comparisons with modern analogues. This is why we need a detailed reference framework relating the chemical and mineralogical compositions of modern microbialites to the physical and chemical parameters prevailing in the environments where they form. Here, we measured the chemical, including major and trace elements, and mineralogical composition of microbialites from ten Mexican lakes as well as the chemical composition of the surrounding waters. Saturation states of lakes with different mineral phases were systematically determined and correlations between solution and solid chemical analyses were assessed using multivariate analyses. A large diversity of microbialites was observed in terms of mineralogical composition, with occurrence of diverse carbonate phases such as (Mg-)calcite, monohydrocalcite, aragonite, hydromagnesite, and dolomite as well as authigenic Mg-silicate phases (kerolite and/or stevensite). All lakes harbouring microbialites were saturated or supersaturated with monohydrocalcite, suggesting that such a saturation state might be required for the onset of microbialite formation and that precursor soluble phases such as amorphous calcium carbonate and monohydrocalcite play a pivotal role in these lakes. Subsequently, monohydrocalcite transforms partly or completely to aragonite or Mg-calcite, depending on the lake (Mg/Ca)aq. Moreover, lakes harbouring hydromagnesite-containing microbialites were saturated with an amorphous magnesium carbonate phase, supporting again the involvement of precursor carbonate phases. Last, authigenic Mg-silicates formed by homogenous or heterogenous nucleation in lakes saturated or supersaturated with a phase reported in the literature as “amorphous sepiolite” and with a H4SiO4 concentration superior to 0.2 mM. A strong correlation between the alkalinity and the salinity of all the lakes was observed. The observed large variations of alkalinity between the lakes relate to varying concentration stages of an initial alkaline dilute water, due to a varying hydrochemical functioning. In all cases, the size of microbialites in the lakes correlated positively with salinity, (Mg/Ca)aq ratio and alkalinity. The trace element compositions of the microbialites also varied significantly between the lakes. Detrital contamination of the studied microbialites was the major factor affecting their rare earth elements (REE) + Y patterns. In particular, the microbialites highly affected by detrital contamination showed a high (REE + Y) content and flat (REE + Y) patterns. In contrast, some microbialites poorly affected by detrital contamination showed (REE + Y) patterns with features commonly reported for marine microbialites, such as a superchondritic Y/Ho ratio, enrichment in heavy REE and a negative Ce anomaly. This last observation questions the possibility to infer the marine versus lacustrine origin of a microbialite based on (REE + Y) patterns only. Overall, while microorganisms can impact nucleation processes and textural arrangements in microbialites, we observe that the hydrogeochemical evolution of lakes exerts a primary control over the onset of microbialite formation and the evolution of their chemical and mineralogical composition. Moreover, while changes of all these chemical and mineralogical features upon diagenesis and metamorphism will need to be assessed, the present study, together with recent meta-analyses of modern microbialites, broadens the set of modern references available for comparisons with geological archives.
Published: 2021

24. The SuperCam Instrument Suite on the Mars 2020 Rover: Science Objectives and Mast-Unit Description

Author: I. Torre-Fdez, V. Gharakanian, E. Cordoba, Jérôme Parisot, R. Perez, Amaury Fau, Peter Willis, Ruth A. Anderson, Pablo Sobron, K. W. Wong, A. Debus, Julien Mekki, Noureddine Melikechi, K. Mathieu, S. Gauffre, M. Toplis, Jesús Martínez-Frías, Alexandre Cadu, Francois Poulet, B. Quertier, Horton E. Newsom, H. Seran, C. Quantin-Nataf, W. D’anna, Jens Frydenvang, Frédéric Chapron, Pierre Beck, Jean-François Mariscal, B. Chide, Y. André, Y. Michel, G. Orttner, N. Toulemont, A. Dufour, Briana Lucero, Olivier Gilard, Marion Bonafous, D. Pheav, Q.-M. Lee, D. Standarovsky, Franck Montmessin, R. Gonzalez, S. Le Mouélic, Cedric Virmontois, L. Roucayrol, I. Gontijo, M. Deleuze, L. Parès, L. Oudda, Y. Micheau, F. Manni, Bruno Dubois, Bruno Bousquet, G. de los Santos, D. M. Delapp, Guillermo Lopez-Reyes, L. Picot, Clément Royer, E. Clave, Richard Leveille, Erwin Dehouck, Gaetan Lacombe, J. Javier Laserna, Olivier Beyssac, P. Romano, Y. Daydou, Scott M. McLennan, John Michel, V. Sridhar, Driss Kouach, Gabriel Pont, M. Dupieux, Michel Gauthier, Jean-Michel Reess, J. Moros, J.-C. Dameury, T. Fouchet, Ann Ollila, Sophie Jacquinod, P. Y. Meslin, M. Egan, Juan Manuel Madariaga, Karim Benzerara, G. Hervet, Gilles Montagnac, Woodward W. Fischer, Olivier Gasnault, T. Nelson, Stanley M. Angel, Lauren DeFlores, Violaine Sautter, Marco Veneranda, C. Leyrat, Olivier Humeau, Y. Morizet, Jose Antonio Manrique, M. Sodki, P. Pilleri, C. Velasco, Naomi Murdoch, M. J. Schoppers, S. A. Storms, Sylvestre Maurice, Benigno Sandoval, Cedric Pilorget, N. Striebig, S. Robinson, V. Mousset, David Mimoun, Morten Madsen, M. Heim, A. Doressoundiram, Christophe Montaron, Eric Lewin, Patrick Pinet, C. Donny, Susanne Schröder, Agnès Cousin, Sadok Abbaki, John P. Grotzinger, Claude Collin, Xavier Jacob, Jeffrey R. Johnson, Cécile Fabre, K. McCabe, C. Legett, J. P. Berthias, Shiv K. Sharma, Timothy H. McConnochie, A. Sournac, Ralph D. Lorenz, M. Viso, Yann Parot, N. Mangold, W. Rapin, Jérémie Lasue, Gorka Arana, Joan Ervin, E. Le Comte, N. Nguyen Tuong, P. Cais, Olivier Forni, D. Rambaud, T. Battault, D. Venhaus, Anupam K. Misra, K. Clark, M. Tatat, Laurent Lapauw, P. Bernardi, Roger C. Wiens, Samuel M. Clegg, Nina Lanza, Sylvain Bernard, Soren N. Madsen, Kepa Castro, M. Boutillier, Raymond Newell, D. Granena, Y. Hello, Fernando Rull, M. Ruellan, R. Mathon, Edward A. Cloutis, Gilles Dromart, L. Le Deit, Rafik Hassen-Khodja, 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), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique = Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics (LESIA), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Universidad de Valladolid [Valladolid] (UVa), Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), US Geological Survey [Flagstaff], United States Geological Survey [Reston] (USGS), University of South Carolina [Columbia], Universidad del Pais Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea [Espagne] (UPV/EHU), Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG ), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Météo-France -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Météo-France, Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Etudes Lasers Intenses et Applications (CELIA), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), University of Winnipeg, 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), Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), 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, University of Hawai‘i [Mānoa] (UHM), GeoRessources, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre de recherches sur la géologie des matières premières minérales et énergétiques (CREGU)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), Institut de mécanique des fluides de Toulouse (IMFT), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université de Toulouse (UT), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD] (APL), PLANETO - LATMOS, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidad de Málaga [Málaga] = University of Málaga [Málaga], Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique [UMR 6112] (LPG), Université d'Angers (UA)-Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR219-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Gustave Eiffel-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System, Stony Brook University [SUNY] (SBU), State University of New York (SUNY), University of Massachusetts [Lowell] (UMass Lowell), University of Massachusetts System (UMASS), Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique - Angers (LPG-ANGERS), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Angers (UA)-Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), The University of New Mexico [Albuquerque], Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), Institut für Optische Sensorsysteme, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt [Berlin] (DLR), SETI Institute, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Bordeaux (UB), Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement [Lyon] (LGL-TPE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre de recherches sur la géologie des matières premières minérales et énergétiques (CREGU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
Subjects: Rocks, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Computer science, [SDU.STU.GP]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph], Mars, Context (language use), Perseverance, Imaging on Mars, Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, 01 natural sciences, SuperCam Instrument, Unit (housing), Mast (sailing), Jezero crater, [SDU.STU.PL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Planetology, imaging on Mars, Microphone on Mars, 0103 physical sciences, Calibration, Rover, [PHYS.COND]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat], infrared spectroscopy, Raman, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Infrared spectroscopy, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, [SPI.ACOU]Engineering Sciences [physics]/Acoustics [physics.class-ph], M2020, LIBS, Payload, Suite, Mars2020, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy, Mars Exploration Program, microphone on Mars, Planetary science, SuperCam, Space and Planetary Science, Raman spectroscopy, Systems engineering, [PHYS.COND.CM-MS]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Materials Science [cond-mat.mtrl-sci], Mars 2020 PERSEVERANCE rover
Abstract: On the NASA 2020 rover mission to Jezero crater, the remote determination of the texture, mineralogy and chemistry of rocks is essential to quickly and thoroughly characterize an area and to optimize the selection of samples for return to Earth. As part of the Perseverance payload, SuperCam is a suite of five techniques that provide critical and complementary observations via Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), Time-Resolved Raman and Luminescence (TRR/L), visible and near-infrared spectroscopy (VISIR), high-resolution color imaging (RMI), and acoustic recording (MIC). SuperCam operates at remote distances, primarily 2-7 m, while providing data at sub-mm to mm scales. We report on SuperCam's science objectives in the context of the Mars 2020 mission goals and ways the different techniques can address these questions. The instrument is made up of three separate subsystems: the Mast Unit is designed and built in France; the Body Unit is provided by the United States; the calibration target holder is contributed by Spain, and the targets themselves by the entire science team. This publication focuses on the design, development, and tests of the Mast Unit; companion papers describe the other units. The goal of this work is to provide an understanding of the technical choices made, the constraints that were imposed, and ultimately the validated performance of the flight model as it leaves Earth, and it will serve as the foundation for Mars operations and future processing of the data. In France was provided by the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES). Human resources were provided in part by the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and universities. Funding was provided in the US by NASA's Mars Exploration Program. Some funding of data analyses at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) was provided by laboratory-directed research and development funds.
Published: 2021

25. Mineral and Trace Element Identification in Jezero Crater, Mars, with SuperCam’s Time-Resolved Raman (TRR) and Luminescence (TRL) Techniques

Author: Bruno Bousquet, Guillermo Lopez-Reyes, Kepa Castro, Olivier Forni, Peter Willis, Jose Antonio Manrique, Jesús Martínez-Frías, Agnes Cousin, P. Bernardi, Juan Manuel Madariaga, Stanley Mike Angel, Ann Ollila, Samuel M. Clegg, Olivier Gasnault, Karim Benzerara, Olivier Beyssac, Sylvain Bernard, E. Clave, Shiv K. Sharma, and Gorka Arana
Subjects: symbols.namesake, Mineral, Impact crater, Trace element, symbols, Mineralogy, Mars Exploration Program, Raman spectroscopy, Luminescence, Geology
Abstract: In February 2021, NASA’s Perseverance rover will begin its exploration of Jezero crater near a putative ancient delta. Orbital mineralogy indicates the presence of carbonates and clay minerals in the landing site, which will be key targets for study. The SuperCam instrument provides an important tool for remotely surveying for these and other minerals using multiple techniques: Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), Time-Resolved Raman (TRR) and Luminescence (TRL) spectroscopies, Visible-Near Infrared (VisIR) spectroscopy, micro-imaging, and acoustics. TRR and TRL use a pulsed 532 nm laser with an adjustable gate width, from 100 ns to several ms. The time at which the gate opens is also adjustable, from coincident with the laser pulse to obtain Raman and fast luminescence out to 10 ms or more to capture the lifetimes of luminescence signals. These techniques will operate at distances up to 7 m from the rover mast and will be most effective if LIBS first removes dust from the targets and chemistry is subsequently obtained at the same location. Early lab results show that TRR is effective for detecting certain carbonates (magnesite, hydromagnesite, siderite, ankerite, calcite, and dolomite), sulfates (gypsum, anhydrite, barite, epsomite, and coquimbite), phosphates (apatite), and silicates (e.g., quartz, feldspar, forsteritic olivine, topaz, and diopside). Many of these minerals are high-priority targets for astrobiology studies because they represent habitable environments and have high biosignature preservation potential in terrestrial rocks. Raman signal strength is significantly decreased in fine-grained materials, however, and clay minerals will be a challenge to detect, as will opaque minerals such as Fe-oxides. TRL will be useful for identifying rare earth elements in phosphates and zircon, Fe3+ in silicates such as feldspar, Mn2+ in carbonates, and Cr3+ in Al-oxides and some silicates. TRL may also be able to identify fast (
Published: 2021

26. Expected first results from the SuperCam microphone onboard the NASA Perseverance rover

Author: Olivier Forni, Gaetan Lacombe, J. Javier Laserna, Stanley M. Angel, E. Clave, Cesar Alvarez, Alexandre Cadu, Jérémie Lasue, Olivier Gasnault, Bruno Bousquet, Pierre-Yves Meslin, P. Bernardi, Thierry Fouchet, Olivier Beyssac, Franck Montmessin, Xavier Jacob, David Mimoun, Ralph D. Lorenz, B. Chide, Nina Lanza, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), 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), Departamento de Fisica Aplicada [Malaga], Universidad de Málaga [Málaga] = University of Málaga [Málaga], University of South Carolina [Columbia], Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique = Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics (LESIA), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Pôle Planétologie du LESIA, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Etudes Lasers Intenses et Applications (CELIA), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD] (APL), PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), and Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Microphone, business.industry, Computer science, Aerospace engineering, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], business
Abstract: The NASA Perseverance rover will land on Mars in February 2021, bringing with it a new suite of analytical instruments with which to explore its landing site in Jezero crater. The primary goal of this new mission is to assess the geology and past habitability in order to identify and cache samples with a high likelihood of preserving biosignatures, in preparation for a future sample return mission [1]. As part of its instrument payload, Perseverance will carry the SuperCam instrument [2-3]. SuperCam combines a number of analytical techniques, notably a laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) instrument for chemical analysis that is coupled with a microphone for acoustic studies. The SuperCam microphone is a commercial of-the-shelf electret (based on Knowles EK-23132) and is designed to record sounds in the audible range, from 100 Hz to 10 kHz, during the surface mission. There are three main science investigations of interest for the SuperCam microphone: 1) Analysis of the LIBS acoustic signal; 2) study of atmospheric phenomena; and 3) examination of rover mechanical sounds. Since the atmosphere will be the source of acoustic signals, the microphone may be used to better understand the nature of the atmosphere and related phenomena such as thermal gradient and convective behavior in the rover’s vicinity [4], the behavior of dust devils [5], and to refine current atmospheric attenuation models for Mars [6]. Under atmosphere, LIBS analysis produces an acoustic signal due to the creation of a shock wave during laser ablation of a target. This acoustic signal can provide critical information about a target’s hardness and ablation depth [7-8] and whether there are coatings or thin layers present [9]. Mechanisms on the rover itself will also provide a source of acoustic signal that may be examined by the SuperCam microphone, notably sounds produced by the Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE, [10]) instrument pumps during oxygen production. By the time of the conference, the SuperCam microphone should have acquired the first sounds on Mars; we will report on these exciting initial results and compare them to our prelanding expectations.[1] Farley K.A. et al. (2020) SSR 216, 142. [2] Wiens R.C. et al. (2021) SSR 217(4). [3] Maurice, S. et al. (in revision) SSR. [4] Chide, B. et al. (2020) 52nd LPSC. [5] Murdoch, N. et al. (2021) 52nd LPSC. [6] Chide, B. et al. (2020) AGU Fall meeting, S007-02. [7] Chide, B. et al. (2019) SAB 153, 50-60. [8] Chide, B. et al. (2020) SAB 174, 106000. [9] Lanza, N.L. et al (2020) 51st LPSC, no. 2807. [10] Hecht, M. H. et al. (2015) 46th LPSC, no. 2774.
Published: 2021

27. Raman spectroscopy for petrology : recent scientific milestones, technological trends and challenges

Author: Olivier Beyssac
Subjects: Engineering, symbols.namesake, business.industry, symbols, Nanotechnology, business, Raman spectroscopy
Abstract: Over the last two decades, Raman microspectroscopy has known a spectacular development in various research fields of petrology opening new avenues for studies in sedimentology, metamorphism or magmatism and cosmochemistry. This has been made possible thanks to major technological improvements (e.g., Raman hyperspectral mapping) and a better theoretical approach (e.g., data processing and interpretation). Raman spectra are actually sensitive to even minor (chemical or structural) perturbations within chemical bonds in (even amorphous) solids, liquids, and gases. They can, thus, help identify, characterize, and differentiate between individual minerals, fluid inclusions, glasses, carbonaceous materials, solid solution phases, strain in minerals, and dissolved species in multi-component solutions. Such sensitivity and versatility make Raman a unique tool for petrology. Yet, it relies on a weak and subtle signal and a cautious approach is required to avoid pitfalls during the analysis and/or the interpretation of data. Some recent scientific milestones will be presented and discussed in various fields like geothermobarometry of metamorphic rocks, geochemistry of meteorites, speciation of deep fluids involved in fluid-rock interactions or the characterization of organic/mineral assemblages of astrobiological interest. For the particular c ase of petrology, Raman microspectroscopy has the immense advantage that it requires minimal sample preparation, thus it can be performed in situ preserving the original microtexture of the sample with a rather high spatial resolution for analysis, typically 1 mm at 532 nm for modern systems. Therefore, this technique is now increasingly used to study poorly crystalline and chemically heterogeneous materials involved for instance in geochemical processes occuring at Earth surface. But it faces numerous challenges due to the reactivity of such phases making them fragile under the laser beam, or due to the quasi-systematic presence of intense backgrounds in the spectra overwhelming the Raman signal. The source of this background can be multiple as it can be observed with fine-grained samples and/or it can be generated by the presence of luminescence/fluorescence emission centers. More generally such background is not well understood although it is a major issue for Raman spectroscopy in many petrological applications. However, there too, recent technological developments, sometimes based on old ideas, offer new possibilities to investigate safely and accurately such materials : time-resolved spectroscopy and surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) will be presented as well as some applications for petrology of complex samples.
Published: 2021

28. Extending the potential of plasma-induced luminescence spectroscopy

Author: Bruno Bousquet, Olivier Forni, Michael Gaft, E. Clave, Roger C. Wiens, Vincent Motto-Ros, Olivier Beyssac, Sylvestre Maurice, Cécile Fabre, Centre d'Etudes Lasers Intenses et Applications (CELIA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Bordeaux (UB), Ariel University, Spectrométrie des biomolécules et agrégats (SPECTROBIO), Institut Lumière Matière [Villeurbanne] (ILM), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), GeoRessources, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre de recherches sur la géologie des matières premières minérales et énergétiques (CREGU)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), 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), and 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)
Subjects: 010302 applied physics, [PHYS]Physics [physics], Range (particle radiation), Materials science, Laser ablation, medicine.medical_treatment, 010401 analytical chemistry, Context (language use), Plasma, Ablation, 01 natural sciences, Molecular physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 0104 chemical sciences, Analytical Chemistry, [SPI]Engineering Sciences [physics], Physics::Space Physics, 0103 physical sciences, medicine, [CHIM]Chemical Sciences, Luminescence, Spectroscopy, Instrumentation, Excitation
Abstract: International audience; In the context of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), plasma-induced luminescence (PIL) may be observed by tuning the temporal acquisition parameters (delay and gate). This approach provides useful information about minor elements in a sample. The broad range of excitation resulting from the laser-induced plasma enables the simultaneous observation of multiple luminescence emission bands. However, PIL results in damage to the sample due to laser ablation. Moreover, time resolution only enables the separation of emission signatures with different decay times; as a consequence, only luminescence signatures with long decay times may be observed separately from plasma emissions. In this study, we propose a new experimental approach to extend the potential of PIL spectroscopy. Our main idea is to generate a laser-induced plasma on a separate ablation target adjacent to the luminescent sample, which is hence protected from laser ablation. Moreover, the ablation target can be selected to ensure a stable plasma for PIL excitation. We also show that this setup enables the further study of the excitation mechanisms of PIL itself by varying the nature of the excitation source of PIL. Finally, we propose a new experimental setup that enables the study of the luminescence features of short decay times. We successfully tested this new approach on both artificial and natural crystals, showing luminescence emission bands of varying decay times.
Published: 2021

29. The SuperCam Instrument Suite on the NASA Mars 2020 Rover: Body Unit and Combined System Tests

Author: Francois Poulet, Nina Lanza, John Michel, Kerry Boyd, Valerie Mousset, Fernando Rull, Anupam K. Misra, Horton E. Newsom, Magdalena Dale, Richard Leveille, Sylvain Bernard, Karim Benzerara, Logan Ott, Timothy H. McConnochie, M. George Duran, Jonathan Deming, C. Glen Peterson, Jorden Celis, Juan Manuel Madariaga, Anthony Nelson, Elizabeth C. Auden, Violaine Sautter, Paolo Pilleri, Naomi Murdoch, Susanne Schröder, Joseph H. Sarrao, Miles Egan, Bruno Dubois, Ann Ollila, Roberta A. Klisiewicz, M. Deleuze, K. McCabe, Ryan B. Anderson, Kevin Clark, Noureddine Melikechi, Jens Frydenvang, Matthew R. Dirmyer, A. Regan, Pierre Beck, Olivier Forni, A. Reyes-Newell, David Mimoun, Lauren DeFlores, Stéphane Le Mouélic, Nicolas Mangold, Eric Lorigny, Denine Gasway, John P. Grotzinger, M. Caffrey, Shiv K. Sharma, J. Javier Laserna, Olivier Gasnault, Steven P. Love, Eric Lewin, Sophie Jacquinod, Jeffrey R. Johnson, Dorothea Delapp, Soren N. Madsen, James Lake, Kepa Castro, Joan Ervin, Olivier Beyssac, C. Donny, Yann Parot, J. P. Martinez, Pierre-Yves Meslin, Gabriel Pont, Jean-Michel Reess, L. Parès, P. Bernardi, D. Venhaus, Guillermo Lopez-Reyes, Benjamin Quertier, Gorka Arana, Morten Madsen, Ivair Gontijo, Ralph D. Lorenz, Philip J. Romano, Ian A. Trettel, S. Michael Angel, Gilles Montagnac, Joseph Becker, Vishnu Sridhar, Rafal Pawluczyk, Jérémie Lasue, P. Cais, William Rapin, Jose Antonio Manrique, Xavier Jacob, Clement Royer, Jacob Valdez, I. Torre-Fdez, Amaury Fau, Peter Willis, Louis Borges, Cheryl Provost, Elizabeth C. Cordoba, M. L. Underwood, Justin McGlown, Daniel Seitz, S. A. Storms, Briana Lucero, Heather Quinn, Thierry Fouchet, Raymond Newell, Cécile Fabre, B. Chide, Y. André, Jeffrey Carlson, Roger C. Wiens, Scott M. McLennan, Woodward W. Fischer, Benigno Sandoval, S. Robinson, Patrick Pinet, Samuel M. Clegg, Agnes Cousin, Sylvestre Maurice, Edward A. Cloutis, Gilles Dromart, Franck Montmessin, C. Legett, Andres Valdez, Bruno Bousquet, Reuben Fresquez, Terra Shepherd, Zachary R. Ousnamer, Pablo Sobron, M. Toplis, Marcel J. Schoppers, Jesús Martínez-Frías, D. T. Beckman, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), 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 d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique = Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics (LESIA), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), University of Hawai‘i [Mānoa] (UHM), Astrogeology Science Center [Flagstaff], United States Geological Survey [Reston] (USGS), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES), University of South Carolina [Columbia], Universidad del Pais Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea [Espagne] (UPV/EHU), Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG ), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Météo-France -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Météo-France, Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre d'Etudes Lasers Intenses et Applications (CELIA), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), University of Winnipeg, 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), GeoRessources, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre de recherches sur la géologie des matières premières minérales et énergétiques (CREGU)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique [UMR 6112] (LPG), Université d'Angers (UA)-Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de mécanique des fluides de Toulouse (IMFT), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université de Toulouse (UT), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory [Laurel, MD] (APL), Universidad de Valladolid [Valladolid] (UVa), Universidad de Málaga [Málaga] = University of Málaga [Málaga], McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), University of Maryland [College Park], University of Maryland System, State University of New York (SUNY), University of Massachusetts [Lowell] (UMass Lowell), University of Massachusetts System (UMASS), PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), The University of New Mexico [Albuquerque], Institut d'astrophysique spatiale (IAS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National d’Études Spatiales [Paris] (CNES), FiberTech Optica (FTO), Institut für Optische Sensorsysteme, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt [Berlin] (DLR), SETI Institute, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), 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 national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Bordeaux (UB), Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement [Lyon] (LGL-TPE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre de recherches sur la géologie des matières premières minérales et énergétiques (CREGU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées, Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique - Angers (LPG-ANGERS), Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université d'Angers (UA)-Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST), Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace - ISAE-SUPAERO (FRANCE), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, Mars, 01 natural sciences, 7. Clean energy, Article, law.invention, Telescope, symbols.namesake, Jezero crater, Optics, ChemCam instrument, law, Microphone on Mars, 0103 physical sciences, SuperCam, planetary exploration, luminescence, Traitement du signal et de l'image, Perseverance rover, Spectroscopy, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Infrared spectroscopy, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Physics, laboratory curiosity rover, remote Raman system, LIBS, Spectrometer, business.industry, Detector, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mars Exploration Program, Gale crater, Laser, induced breakdown spectroscopy, Wavelength, in-situ, mission, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Raman spectroscopy, symbols, business
Abstract: The SuperCam instrument suite provides the Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance, with a number of versatile remote-sensing techniques that can be used at long distance as well as within the robotic-arm workspace. These include laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS), remote time-resolved Raman and luminescence spectroscopies, and visible and infrared (VISIR; separately referred to as VIS and IR) reflectance spectroscopy. A remote micro-imager (RMI) provides high-resolution color context imaging, and a microphone can be used as a stand-alone tool for environmental studies or to determine physical properties of rocks and soils from shock waves of laser-produced plasmas. SuperCam is built in three parts: The mast unit (MU), consisting of the laser, telescope, RMI, IR spectrometer, and associated electronics, is described in a companion paper. The on-board calibration targets are described in another companion paper. Here we describe SuperCam's body unit (BU) and testing of the integrated instrument. The BU, mounted inside the rover body, receives light from the MU via a 5.8 m optical fiber. The light is split into three wavelength bands by a demultiplexer, and is routed via fiber bundles to three optical spectrometers, two of which (UV and violet; 245-340 and 385-465 nm) are crossed Czerny-Turner reflection spectrometers, nearly identical to their counterparts on ChemCam. The third is a high-efficiency transmission spectrometer containing an optical intensifier capable of gating exposures to 100 ns or longer, with variable delay times relative to the laser pulse. This spectrometer covers 535-853 nm ( 105 - 7070 cm − 1 Raman shift relative to the 532 nm green laser beam) with 12 cm − 1 full-width at half-maximum peak resolution in the Raman fingerprint region. The BU electronics boards interface with the rover and control the instrument, returning data to the rover. Thermal systems maintain a warm temperature during cruise to Mars to avoid contamination on the optics, and cool the detectors during operations on Mars. Results obtained with the integrated instrument demonstrate its capabilities for LIBS, for which a library of 332 standards was developed. Examples of Raman and VISIR spectroscopy are shown, demonstrating clear mineral identification with both techniques. Luminescence spectra demonstrate the utility of having both spectral and temporal dimensions. Finally, RMI and microphone tests on the rover demonstrate the capabilities of these subsystems as well., Proyecto MINECO Retos de la Sociedad. Ref. ESP2017-87690-C3-1-R
Published: 2021

30. CHEMISTRY, MINERALOGY, AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS AND SOILS TARGETED BY SUPERCAM AT JEZERO CRATER

Author: Nicolas Mangold, Ann Ollila, Lucia Mandon, Sylvestre Maurice, Olivier Beyssac, Cathy Quantin, Samuel M. Clegg, Jeffrey R. Johnson, R. C. Wiens, and Agnès Cousin
Subjects: Impact crater, Soil water, Geochemistry
Published: 2021

31. Martian Magmatic Clay Minerals Forming Vesicles: Perfect Niches for Emerging Life?

Author: Sylvain Bernard, Brigitte Zanda, Sylvain Courrech du Pont, Brian Grégoire, Albert Jambon, R. H. Hewins, Olivier Beyssac, Corentin Le Guillou, V. Sautter, Laurent Remusat, Jean-Christophe Viennet, Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Unité Matériaux et Transformations - UMR 8207 (UMET), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Centrale Lille Institut (CLIL), Institut de Chimie des Milieux et Matériaux de Poitiers (IC2MP), Université de Poitiers-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Centrale Lille-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)
Subjects: Extraterrestrial Environment, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Habitability, Mars, 01 natural sciences, Astrobiology, Nakhlite, 0103 physical sciences, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Vesicular texture, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Martian, Minerals, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], Magmatism, Crust, Meteoroids, Mars Exploration Program, Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous), Clay minerals, Meteorite, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Clay, Geology
Abstract: International audience; Mars was habitable in its early history, but the consensus is that it is quite inhospitable today, in particular because its modern climate cannot support stable liquid water at the surface. Here, we report the presence of magmatic Fe/Mg clay minerals within the mesostasis of the martian meteorite NWA 5790, an unaltered 1.3 Ga nakhlite archetypal of the martian crust. These magmatic clay minerals exhibit a vesicular texture that forms a network of microcavities or pockets, which could serve as microreactors and allow molecular crowding, a necessary step for the emergence of life. Because their formation does not depend on climate, such niches for emerging life may have been generated on Mars at many periods throughout its history, regardless of the stability or availability of liquid water at the surface.
Published: 2021

32. Tardi-magmatic precipitation of Cl-bearing Fe/Mg clay minerals on Mars

Author: Roger H. Hewins, Laurent Remusat, Brigitte Zanda, Sylvain Bernard, Corentin Le Guillou, Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin, Jean-Christophe Viennet, Violaine Sautter, Olivier Beyssac, Sylvain Courrech du Pont, Albert Jambon, and Brian Grégoire
Subjects: Bearing (mechanical), Chemistry, law, Geochemistry, Mars Exploration Program, Precipitation, Clay minerals, law.invention
Published: 2021

33. Recording laser-induced sparks on Mars with the SuperCam microphone

Author: Pierre-Yves Meslin, Bruno Bousquet, David Mimoun, B. Chide, Sylvestre Maurice, Agnes Cousin, Olivier Beyssac, Roger C. Wiens, Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), 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), Centre d'Etudes Lasers Intenses et Applications (CELIA), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Bordeaux (UB)
Subjects: [PHYS]Physics [physics], Laser ablation, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Atmospheric pressure, Microphone, business.industry, Atmosphere of Mars, Mars Exploration Program, Laser, 01 natural sciences, Signal, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Analytical Chemistry, law.invention, Optics, Impact crater, 13. Climate action, law, 0103 physical sciences, Environmental science, business, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Instrumentation, Spectroscopy, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: The SuperCam instrument suite onboard the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover includes a microphone used to complement Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy investigations of the surface of Mars. The potential of the SuperCam microphone has already been demonstrated for laser ablation under Earth atmosphere in our preliminary study with a small set of samples and fixed experimental conditions. This new experimental study, conducted under Mars atmosphere, explores all the main environmental, instrumental and target dependent parameters that likely govern the laser-induced acoustic signal that will be generated on Mars. As SuperCam will observe targets at various distances from the rover, under an atmospheric pressure that follows diurnal and seasonal cycles, this study proposes a sequence of corrections to apply to Mars data in order to compare acoustic signal from targets sampled under different configurations. In addition, 17 samples, including pure metals but also rocks and minerals relevant to Mars' surface were tested to study the influence of target properties and laser-matter interactions on the acoustic signal and the ablated volume. A specific behavior is reported for metals and graphite, which rapidly disperse the incoming laser energy through heat diffusion. However, for other minerals and rocks, the growth of the crater is seen to be responsible for the shot-to-shot decrease in acoustic energy. As a consequence, it is confirmed that monitoring the acoustic energy during a burst of laser shots could be used to estimate the laser-induced cavity volume. Moreover, the amount of matter removed by the laser is all the more important when the target is soft. Hence, the decreasing rate of the acoustic energy is correlated with the target hardness. These complementary information will help to better document SuperCam targets.
Published: 2020

34. Tardi-magmatic precipitation of Martian Fe/Mg-rich clay minerals via igneous differentiation

Author: Jean-Christophe Viennet, C. Le Guillou, Brigitte Zanda, Violaine Sautter, Olivier Beyssac, Sylvain Courrech du Pont, P. Schmitt-Kopplin, R. H. Hewins, Sylvain Bernard, Laurent Remusat, Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Unité Matériaux et Transformations - UMR 8207 (UMET), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centrale Lille Institut (CLIL)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), German Research Center for Environmental Health - Helmholtz Center München (GmbH), French National Research Agency (ANR) Region Ile-de-FranceI-07-593/RCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) UPMC-Paris 6 French National Research Agency (ANR)ANR07-BLAN-0124-01Chevreul Institute European Union (EU) Region Hauts-de-France, Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Centrale Lille Institut (CLIL), Centrale Lille-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Université de Lille, CNRS, INRA, ENSCL, Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie [IMPMC], and Unité Matériaux et Transformations - UMR 8207 [UMET]
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Geochemistry, Mars, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph], 01 natural sciences, Petrography, Geochemistry and Petrology, 0103 physical sciences, Environmental Chemistry, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Basalt, Martian, [SDU.ASTR]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph], magmatic precipitation, clay minerals, Noachian, Geology, Mars Exploration Program, [CHIM.MATE]Chemical Sciences/Material chemistry, Meteorite, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], [PHYS.COND.CM-MS]Physics [physics]/Condensed Matter [cond-mat]/Materials Science [cond-mat.mtrl-sci], Igneous differentiation, Clay minerals, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: International audience; Mars is seen as a basalt covered world that has been extensively altered through hydrothermal or near surface water-rock interactions. As a result, all the Fe/Mg-rich clay minerals detected from orbit so far have been interpreted as secondary, i.e. as products of aqueous alteration of pre-existing silicates by (sub)surface water. Based on the fine scale petrographic study of the evolved mesostasis of the Nakhla meteorite, we report here the presence of primary Fe/Mg-rich clay minerals that directly precipitated from a water-rich fluid exsolved from the Cl-rich parental melt of nakhlites during igneous differentiation. Such a tardi-magmatic precipitation of clay minerals requires much lower amounts of water compared to production via aqueous alteration. Although primary Fe/Mg-rich clay minerals are minor phases in Nakhla, the contribution of such a process to Martian clay formation may have been quite significant during the Noachian given that Noachian magmas were richer in H 2 O. In any case, the present discovery justifies a re-evaluation of the exact origin of the clay minerals detected on Mars so far, with potential consequences for our vision of the early magmatic and climatic histories of Mars.
Published: 2020

35. SuperCam Calibration Targets: Design and Development

Author: Ann Ollila, V. Sautter, Juan Manuel Madariaga, Gilles Dromart, J. Javier Laserna, P.-Y. Meslin, P. Bernardi, G. Montagnac, V. Garcia-Baonza, Morten Madsen, Agnes Cousin, C. Castro, J. Aramendia, Andoni Moral, Edward A. Cloutis, I. Sard, M. Toplis, Sylvestre Maurice, C. Drouet, Eva Mateo-Martí, Bruno Dubois, David Escribano, J. A. Sanz-Arranz, Jesús Medina, Soren N. Madsen, C. Ortega, Jeffrey R. Johnson, Olivier Gasnault, Kepa Castro, Jose A. Rodriguez, Fernando Rull, Olivier Forni, Ph. Cais, Olga Prieto-Ballesteros, Guillermo Lopez-Reyes, Pablo Sobron, Cécile Fabre, Marco Veneranda, Jesus Saiz, A. Fernandez, Alicia Berrocal, J. M. Reess, Jérémie Lasue, Sylvain Bernard, Pierre Beck, S. Robinson, J. Moros, Gorka Arana, Roger C. Wiens, Samuel M. Clegg, M. H. Bernt, I. Gontijo, Olivier Beyssac, Jose Antonio Manrique, Universidad de Valladolid [Valladolid] (UVa), 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), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Niels Bohr Institute [Copenhagen] (NBI), Faculty of Science [Copenhagen], University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), Universidad del Pais Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea [Espagne] (UPV/EHU), Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG ), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Météo-France -Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Météo-France, Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique = Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics (LESIA), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), ISDEFE, Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de Bordeaux [Pessac] (LAB), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Added Value Solutions (AVS), University of Winnipeg, 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), Centre interuniversitaire de recherche et d'ingenierie des matériaux (CIRIMAT), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université de Toulouse (UT), Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), 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, Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), GeoRessources, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre de recherches sur la géologie des matières premières minérales et énergétiques (CREGU)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Instituto de Geociencias (CSIC-UCM), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Johns Hopkins University (JHU), Universidad de Málaga [Málaga] = University of Málaga [Málaga], Centro de Astrobiologia [Madrid] (CAB), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (KU), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique (LESIA (UMR_8109)), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement [Lyon] (LGL-TPE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut National Polytechnique (Toulouse) (Toulouse INP), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC), Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre de recherches sur la géologie des matières premières minérales et énergétiques (CREGU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - CNRS (FRANCE), Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - Toulouse INP (FRANCE), and Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier - UT3 (FRANCE)
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Computer science, Matériaux, Context (language use), 01 natural sciences, Article, Jezero crater, Perseverance rover · Jezero crater · LIBS · Raman spectroscopy · Infrared spectroscopy · SuperCam · Calibration, 0103 physical sciences, Calibration, Perseverance rover, Mineral identification, 010303 astronomy & astrophysics, Infrared spectroscopy, INDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Remote sensing, MISSION, Elemental composition, LIBS, CHEMCAM INSTRUMENT, Suite, MARS, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Mars Exploration Program, LABORATORY CURIOSITY ROVER, Sample (graphics), [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM], Sound recording and reproduction, SuperCam, 13. Climate action, Space and Planetary Science, Raman spectroscopy, MAGNETIC-PROPERTIES EXPERIMENTS, [PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Abstract: SuperCam is a highly integrated remote-sensing instrumental suite for NASA’s Mars 2020 mission. It consists of a co-aligned combination of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), Time-Resolved Raman and Luminescence (TRR/L), Visible and In frared Spectroscopy (VISIR), together with sound recording (MIC) and high-magnification imaging techniques (RMI). They provide information on the mineralogy, geochemistry and mineral context around the Perseverance Rover. The calibration of this complex suite is a major challenge. Not only does each technique require its own standards or references, their combination also introduces new requirements to obtain optimal scientific output. Elemental composition, molecular vibrational features, fluorescence, morphology and texture provide a full picture of the sample with spectral information that needs to be co-aligned, correlated, and individually calibrated. The resulting hardware includes different kinds of targets, each one covering different needs of the instrument. Standards for imaging calibration, geological samples for mineral identification and chemometric calculations or spectral references to calibrate and eval uate the health of the instrument, are all included in the SuperCam Calibration Target (SCCT). The system also includes a specifically designed assembly in which the samples are mounted. This hardware allows the targets to survive the harsh environmental condi tions of the launch, cruise, landing and operation on Mars during the whole mission. Here we summarize the design, development, integration, verification and functional testing of the SCCT. This work includes some key results obtained to verify the scientific outcome of the SuperCam system., Proyecto MINECO Retos de la Sociedad. Ref. ESP2017-87690-C3-1-R
Published: 2020

36. New Trends in Raman Spectroscopy: From High-Resolution Geochemistry to Planetary Exploration

Author: Olivier Beyssac, Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), and Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Materials science, 010401 analytical chemistry, High resolution, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, Mars exploration, 7. Clean energy, 01 natural sciences, 0104 chemical sciences, Astrobiology, symbols.namesake, Geochemistry and Petrology, SERS/TERS, Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous), symbols, luminescence, time-resolved Raman, mineralogy, Raman spectroscopy, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Planetary exploration
Abstract: This article reviews nonconventional Raman spectroscopy techniques and discusses present and future applications of these techniques in the Earth and planetary sciences. Time-resolved spectroscopy opens new ways to limit or exploit luminescence effects, whereas techniques based on coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) or surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) allow the Raman signal to be considerably enhanced even down to very high spatial resolutions. In addition, compact portable Raman spectrometers are now routinely used out of the laboratory and are even integrated to two rovers going to Mars in the near future.
Published: 2020

37. Deciphering the metamorphic evolution of the Pulo do Lobo metasedimentary domain (SW Iberian Variscides)

Author: Irene Pérez-Cáceres, Olivier Vidal, Olivier Beyssac, Antonio Azor, Franck Bourdelle, David Martínez Poyatos, José Fernando Simancas, Fernando Nieto, Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España), Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), Junta de Andalucía, Universidad de Granada (UGR), Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR219-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Gustave Eiffel-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Génie Civil et Géo-Environnement [Béthune] (LGCgE), Université d'Artois (UA), and Universidad de Granada = University of Granada (UGR)
Subjects: Accretionary wedge, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, High-pressure, Greenschist, Stratigraphy, Metamorphic rock, Geochemistry, Soil Science, Metamorphism, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, South portuguese zone, U-PB, engineering.material, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Crenulation, lcsh:Stratigraphy, Geochemistry and Petrology, Carboniferous, White-mica crystallinity, Tectonic Evolution, Low-Grade Metamorphism, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Earth-Surface Processes, lcsh:QE640-699, lcsh:QE1-996.5, Paleontology, P-T constraints, Geology, Rheic Ocean, Shear zones, lcsh:Geology, Geophysics, engineering, Celadonite, Shear zone, Ossa-Morena zone
Abstract: The Pulo do Lobo domain is one of the units exposed within the orogenic suture zone between the Ossa-Morena and the South Portuguese zones in the SW Iberian Variscides. This metasedimentary unit has been classically interpreted as a Rheic subduction-related accretionary prism formed during pre-Carboniferous convergence and eventual collision between the South Portuguese Zone (part of Avalonia) and the Ossa-Morena Zone (peri-Gondwanan terrane). Discrete mafic intrusions also occur within the dominant Pulo do Lobo metapelites, related to an intra-orogenic Mississippian transtensional and magmatic event that had a significant thermal input. Three different approaches have been applied to the Devonian-Carboniferous phyllites and slates of the Pulo do Lobo domain in order to study their poorly known low-grade metamorphic evolution. X-ray diffraction (XRD) was used to identify the mineralogy and measure crystallographic parameters (illite "crystallinity" and K-white mica b-cell dimension). Compositional maps of selected samples were obtained from electron probe micro-analysis, which allowed for processing with XMapTools software, and chlorite semiempirical and thermodynamic geothermometry was performed. Thermometry based on Raman spectroscopy of carbonaceous material (RSCM) was used to obtain peak temperatures. The microstructural study shows the existence of two phyllosilicate growth events in the chlorite zone, the main one (M-1) related to the development of a Devonian foliation S-1 and a minor one (M-2) associated with a crenulation cleavage (S-2) developed in middle-upper Carboniferous times. M-1 entered well into epizone (greenschist facies) conditions. M-2 conditions were at lower temperature, reaching the anchizone-epizone boundary. These data accord well with the angular unconformity that separates the Devonian and Carboniferous formations of the Pulo do Lobo domain. The varied results obtained by the different approaches followed, combined with microstructural analysis, provide different snapshots of the metamorphic history. Thus, RSCM temperatures are higher in comparison with the other methods applied, which is interpreted to reflect a faster re-equilibration during the short-lived thermal Mississippian event. Regarding the metamorphic pressure, the data are very homogeneous: very low celadonite content (0 %-10 %) in muscovite (and low values of K-white mica b-cell dimension; 8.995 angstrom mean value), indicating a low pressure-temperature gradient, which is unexpected in a subduction-related accretionary prism., This research has been supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (grant no. CGL2011-24101), the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (grant nos. CGL2015-71692-P, CGL2016-75679-P), the Andalusian Government (grant nos. RNM-148, RNM-179), and the doctoral scholarship to Irene Perez-Caceres from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (grant no. BES-2012-055754). The Raman facility in Paris has been funded by the city of Paris (Emergence program).
Published: 2020

38. The 3‐D Thermal Structure of the Helvetic Nappes of the European Alps: Implications for Collisional Processes

Author: Anne Verlaguet, Olivier Beyssac, Claudio Rosenberg, Jean-Baptiste Girault, Alexandre Boutoux, Ugo Nanni, Nicolas Bellahsen, Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris (iSTeP), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), and Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Structure (mathematical logic), Thesaurus (information retrieval), [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, external Alps, Paleontology, Geophysics, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Geochemistry and Petrology, thermal and structural evolution, Helvetic nappes, RSCM method, Geology, collision
Abstract: International audience; Understanding the rheology of orogenic wedges requires the knowledge of the structural and thermal evolution of collisional units. In this study, we document the maximum temperature reached by the sedimentary cover nappes of the External Crystalline Massif (Western and central Alps) by Raman spectroscopy of carbonaceous material, between the Belledonne (France) and the Aar (Switzerland) Massifs. These cover units form the Helvetic/Dauphinois nappe complex. Maximum temperatures reached by the Upper Helvetic nappes lie in a range spanning from below 220 and 350 °C ± 50 °C. For the Lower Helvetic nappes, the temperatures spread between 226 and 358 °C ± 50 °C. These temperatures were projected on two structural cross sections in order to constrain the 3-D thermal structure. From these data, we propose that the Helvetic nappes were deformed and emplaced before and/or during the thermal peak, which supports recent findings that shortening in the External Crystalline Massif was mainly accommodated during a 5- to 10-Myr-long thermal peak before deformation localized along crustal thrusts, which exhumed and cooled down the wedge. During this late exhumation, the isotherms corresponding to the thermal peak were passively folded.
Published: 2020

39. The gammaproteobacterium Achromatium forms intracellular amorphous calcium carbonate and not (crystalline) calcite

Author: Caroline L. Monteil, Romain Bolzoni, Karim Benzerara, Olivier Forni, Olivier Beyssac, Béatrice Alonso, Maria P. Asta, Christopher T. Lefèvre, Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Biosciences et Biotechnologies d'Aix-Marseille (ex-IBEB) (BIAM), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), 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), Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR219-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Gustave Eiffel-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement 747597, This project has received funding from the CNRS: 'Programme national Ecosphère Continentale et Côtière (EC2CO)' (BACCARAT2 – N°13068), ANR-18-CE31-0003,SIGMAG,SIGNATURE DES MAGNETITES PRODUITES PAR LES BACTERIES MAGNETOTACTIQUES : PERSPECTIVES CHIMIQUES ET ISOTOPIQUES(2018), ANR-19-CE01-0005,PHOSTORE,Piégeage du phosphore : contribution des bactéries magnétotactiques dans les zones de transition oxique-anoxique(2019), Direction de Recherche Fondamentale (CEA) (DRF (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), and Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Météo France-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Cyanobacteria, Lysis, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Carbonates, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Oxalate, Calcium Carbonate, chemistry.chemical_compound, Achromatium, [SDU.ENVI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Continental interfaces, environment, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, General Environmental Science, Calcite, biology, Gram-Negative Aerobic Bacteria, Chemistry, biology.organism_classification, [SDV.MP.BAC]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology/Bacteriology, Amorphous calcium carbonate, Lakes, 13. Climate action, Biophysics, Microscopy, Electron, Scanning, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology, Intracellular, Bacteria, [SDU.STU.MI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Mineralogy
Abstract: Achromatium is a long known uncultured giant gammaproteobacterium forming intracellular CaCO3 that impacts C and S geochemical cycles functioning in some anoxic sediments and at oxic-anoxic boundaries. While intracellular CaCO3 granules have first been described as Ca oxalate then colloidal CaCO3 more than one century ago, they have often been referred to as crystalline solids and more specifically calcite over the last 25 years. Such a crystallographic distinction is important since the respective chemical reactivities of amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC) and calcite, hence their potential physiological role and conditions of formation, are significantly different. Here, we analyzed the intracellular CaCO3 granules of Achromatium cells from Lake Pavin using a combination of Raman microspectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy. Granules in intact Achromatium cells were unequivocally composed of ACC. Moreover, ACC spontaneously transformed into calcite when irradiated at high laser irradiance during Raman analyses. Few ACC granules also transformed spontaneously into calcite in lysed cells upon cell death and/or sample preparation. Overall, the present study supports the original claims that intracellular Ca-carbonates in Achromatium are amorphous and not crystalline. In that sense, Achromatium is similar to a diverse group of Cyanobacteria and a recently discovered magnetotactic alphaproteobacterium, which all form intracellular ACC. The implications for the physiology and ecology of Achromatium are discussed. Whether the mechanisms responsible for the preservation of such unstable compounds in these bacteria are similar to those involved in numerous ACC-forming eukaryotes remains to be discovered. Last, we recommend to future studies addressing the crystallinity of CaCO3 granules in Achromatium cells recovered from diverse environments all over the world to take care of the potential pitfalls evidenced by the present study.
Published: 2020

40. Fluid-mediated selective dissolution of subducting carbonaceous material: Implications for carbon recycling and fluid fluxes at forearc depths

Author: Francesca Piccoli, Simone Tumiati, Jay J. Ague, James A. D. Connolly, Alberto Vitale Brovarone, Olivier Beyssac, Vitale Brovarone A., Tumiati S., Piccoli F., Ague J.J., Connolly J.A.D., Beyssac O., Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), and Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: Deep carbon cycle, Subducted carbonaceous material, Fluid-rock interactions, Dissolution of organic C, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Subduction, Lithology, Geology, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Mantle (geology), Tectonics, 13. Climate action, Geochemistry and Petrology, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Sedimentary rock, Metasomatism, Petrology, Dissolution, Forearc, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: Subduction of crustal C governs the long-term global C cycling. The role of carbonates recycling in subduction zones and the related dissolution of C at various depths have been the subject of a large body of literature over the last decades. Much less is known about the contribution of carbonaceous material (CM) to the deep C cycling in subduction zones. This paper presents natural evidence for intense fluid-mediated leaching of CM in pelitic schists at high-pressure/low-temperature conditions relevant to the forearc region of subducting slabs. Manifestations of such process were identified along fluid pathways at various scales in the blueschist-facies subduction complexes of both Alpine Corsica and the Western Alps. Microstructural, whole-rock and Raman analyses across a selected metasomatic aureole were used to quantify the amount and mechanisms of C loss during fluid-rock interaction. In samples affected by intense fluid infiltration, >90% of the initial CM was removed from the rock. Microstructural and micro-Raman data indicate selective leaching of disordered CM relative to nearly crystalline graphite. The collected data allowed constraining the magnitude of fluid fluxes required to bleach the studied CM-bearing lithologies at different P-T-fO2 conditions, which corresponds to rather high time-integrated fluid fluxes in the order of ~106 m3/m2. In settings of large-scale fluid channelization, such as along regional-scale, lithological/tectonic boundaries or at the top of the subducted sedimentary pile, intense dissolution of subducted CM is expected. This process may thus exert a negative feedback on the sink of C phases into the deep mantle over the geological timescales and contribute to the release of isotopically light C from subducting slabs in forearc regions.
Published: 2020

41. Post-landing major element quantification using SuperCam laser induced breakdown spectroscopy

Author: Ryan B. Anderson, Olivier Forni, Agnes Cousin, Roger C. Wiens, Samuel M. Clegg, Jens Frydenvang, Travis S.J. Gabriel, Ann Ollila, Susanne Schröder, Olivier Beyssac, Erin Gibbons, David S. Vogt, Elise Clavé, Jose-Antonio Manrique, Carey Legett, Paolo Pilleri, Raymond T. Newell, Joseph Sarrao, Sylvestre Maurice, Gorka Arana, Karim Benzerara, Pernelle Bernardi, Sylvain Bernard, Bruno Bousquet, Adrian J. Brown, César Alvarez-Llamas, Baptiste Chide, Edward Cloutis, Jade Comellas, Stephanie Connell, Erwin Dehouck, Dorothea M. Delapp, Ari Essunfeld, Cecile Fabre, Thierry Fouchet, Cristina Garcia-Florentino, Laura García-Gómez, Patrick Gasda, Olivier Gasnault, Elisabeth M. Hausrath, Nina L. Lanza, Javier Laserna, Jeremie Lasue, Guillermo Lopez, Juan Manuel Madariaga, Lucia Mandon, Nicolas Mangold, Pierre-Yves Meslin, Anthony E. Nelson, Horton Newsom, Adriana L. Reyes-Newell, Scott Robinson, Fernando Rull, Shiv Sharma, Justin I. Simon, Pablo Sobron, Imanol Torre Fernandez, Arya Udry, Dawn Venhaus, Scott M. McLennan, Richard V. Morris, Bethany Ehlmann, US Geological Survey [Flagstaff], United States Geological Survey [Reston] (USGS), 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), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Globe Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH)-University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (UCPH), DLR Institute of Optical Sensor Systems, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt [Berlin] (DLR), Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), McGill University = Université McGill [Montréal, Canada], Centre d'Etudes Lasers Intenses et Applications (CELIA), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidad de Valladolid [Valladolid] (UVa), University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU), Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique = Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics (LESIA), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité), Plancius Research LLC, Universidad de Málaga [Málaga] = University of Málaga [Málaga], University of Manitoba [Winnipeg], 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), GeoRessources, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre de recherches sur la géologie des matières premières minérales et énergétiques (CREGU)-Université de Lorraine (UL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University of Nevada [Las Vegas] (WGU Nevada), 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), The University of New Mexico [Albuquerque], University of Hawai‘i [Mānoa] (UHM), NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), NASA, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute (SETI), State University of New York at Stony Brook, Stony Brook University [SUNY] (SBU), State University of New York (SUNY)-State University of New York (SUNY), Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences [Pasadena], and California Institute of Technology (CALTECH)
Subjects: LIBS, Mars, Multivariate regression, Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy, Regression, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Analytical Chemistry, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Calibration, Chemometrics, Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy LIBS Mars Multivariate regression Regression Chemometrics Calibration, Instrumentation, Spectroscopy
Abstract: International audience; The SuperCam instrument on the Perseverance Mars 2020 rover uses a pulsed 1064 nm laser to ablate targets at a distance and conduct laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) by analyzing the light from the resulting plasma. SuperCam LIBS spectra are preprocessed to remove ambient light, noise, and the continuum signal present in LIBS observations. Prior to quantification, spectra are masked to remove noisier spectrometer regions and spectra are normalized to minimize signal fluctuations and effects of target distance. In some cases, the spectra are also standardized or binned prior to quantification. To determine quantitative elemental compositions of diverse geologic materials at Jezero crater, Mars, we use a suite of 1198 laboratory spectra of 334 well-characterized reference samples. The samples were selected to span a wide range of compositions and include typical silicate rocks, pure minerals (e.g., silicates, sulfates, carbonates, oxides), more unusual compositions (e.g., Mn ore and sodalite), and replicates of the sintered SuperCam calibration targets (SCCTs) onboard the rover. For each major element (SiO2, TiO2, Al2O3, FeOT, MgO, CaO, Na2O, K2O), the database was subdivided into five "folds" with similar distributions of the element of interest. One fold was held out as an independent test set, and the remaining four folds were used to optimize multivariate regression models relating the spectrum to the composition. We considered a variety of models, and selected several for further investigation for each element, based primarily on the root mean squared error of prediction (RMSEP) on the test set, when analyzed at 3 m. In cases with several models of comparable performance at 3 m, we incorporated the SCCT performance at different distances to choose the preferred model. Shortly after landing on Mars and collecting initial spectra of geologic targets, we selected one model per element. Subsequently, with additional data from geologic targets, some models were revised to ensure results that are more consistent with geochemical constraints. The calibration discussed here is a snapshot of an ongoing effort to deliver the most accurate chemical compositions with SuperCam LIBS.
Published: 2022

42. Textural changes of graphitic carbon by tectonic and hydrothermal processes in an active plate boundary fault zone, Alpine Fault, New Zealand

Author: John Townend, Dave Craw, Katrina Sauer, Carolyn Boulton, Olivier Beyssac, Anja M. Schleicher, Alan Cooper, Luiz F. G. Morales, Martina Kirilova, Chance Morgan, Lisa Craw, Brett M. Carpenter, Nicholas E. Timms, Timothy A. Little, Angela Halfpenny, Virginia Toy, Jason Grieve, Hiroshi Mori, C. D. Menzies, Rupert Sutherland, and Jack N. Williams
Subjects: geography, geography.geographical_feature_category, Cataclasite, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Metamorphic rock, Schist, Mineralogy, Geology, Ocean Engineering, Fault (geology), 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Hydrothermal circulation, Grain boundary, Graphite, Petrology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Water Science and Technology, Mylonite
Abstract: Graphitization in fault zones is associated both with fault weakening and orogenic gold mineralization. We examine processes of graphitic carbon emplacement and deformation in the active Alpine Fault Zone, New Zealand by analysing samples obtained from Deep Fault Drilling Project (DFDP) boreholes. Optical and scanning electron microscopy reveal a microtextural record of graphite mobilization as a function of temperature and ductile then brittle shear strain. Raman spectroscopy allowed interpretation of the degree of graphite crystallinity, which reflects both thermal and mechanical processes. In the amphibolite-facies Alpine Schist, highly crystalline graphite, indicating peak metamorphic temperatures up to 640°C, occurs mainly on grain boundaries within quartzo-feldspathic domains. The subsequent mylonitization process resulted in the reworking of graphite under lower temperature conditions (500–600°C), resulting in clustered (in protomylonites) and foliation-aligned graphite (in mylonites). In cataclasites, derived from the mylonitized schists, graphite is most abundant (
Published: 2017

43. Deciphering the metamorphic evolution of the Pulo do Lobo metasedimentary belt (SW Iberian Variscides)

Author: Irene Pérez-Cáceres, David Jesús Martínez Poyatos, Olivier Vidal, Olivier Beyssac, Fernando Nieto, José Fernando Simancas, Antonio Azor, and Franck Bourdelle
Abstract: The Pulo do Lobo belt is one of the units related to the orogenic suture between the Ossa-Morena and the South Portuguese zones in the SW Iberian Variscides. This metasedimentary unit has been classically interpreted as a Rheic subduction-related accretionary prism formed during the pre-Carboniferous convergence and eventual collision between the South Portuguese Zone (part of Avalonia) and the Ossa-Morena Zone (peri-Gondwanan terrane). Discrete mafic intrusions also occur in the dominant Pulo do Lobo metapelites, related to an intraorogenic Mississippian transtensional and magmatic event that had a significant thermal input. Three different approaches have been applied to the Devonian/Carboniferous phyllites and slates of the Pulo do Lobo belt in order to study their poorly known low-grade metamorphic evolution. X-Ray diffraction (XRD) was used to unravel the mineralogy and measure crystallographic parameters (illite crystallinity and K-white mica b-cell dimension). Compositional maps of selected samples were obtained from electron probe microanalysis, which allowed processing with XmapTools software, and chlorite semi-empirical and thermodynamic geothermometry was performed. Thermometry based on Raman spectroscopy of carbonaceous material (RSCM) was used to obtain peak temperatures. The microstructural study shows the existence of two phyllosilicate growth events at the chlorite zone, the main one (M1) related to the development of a Devonian foliation S1, and a minor one (M2) associated with a crenulation cleavage (S2) developed at middle/upper Carboniferous time. M1 entered well into epizone (greenschist facies) conditions. M2 conditions were at lower temperature, reaching the anchizone/epizone boundary. These data accord well with the unconformity that separates the Devonian and Carboniferous formations of the Pulo do Lobo belt. The varied results obtained by the different approaches followed, combined with microstructural analysis, are indicative of different snapshots of the metamorphic history. Thus, RSCM temperatures are higher in comparison with the other methods applied, which is interpreted as reflecting a faster reequilibration during the short-lived thermal Mississippian event. Regarding the metamorphic pressure, the data are very homogeneous (very low celadonite content in muscovite and low values of K-white mica b-cell dimension), indicating a low-pressure gradient, which is unexpected in a subduction-related accretionary prism.
Published: 2019

44. Supplementary material to 'Deciphering the metamorphic evolution of the Pulo do Lobo metasedimentary belt (SW Iberian Variscides)'

Author: Irene Pérez-Cáceres, David Jesús Martínez Poyatos, Olivier Vidal, Olivier Beyssac, Fernando Nieto, José Fernando Simancas, Antonio Azor, and Franck Bourdelle
Published: 2019

45. Atomic scale transformation of bone in controlled aqueous alteration experiments

Author: Cristina Coelho-Diogo, Nathalie Labourdette, Christophe Lécuyer, Romain Amiot, Christel Gervais, Olivier Beyssac, Julie Aufort, Loïc Ségalen, Etienne Balan, Benoit Baptiste, Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Spectroscopie, Modélisation, Interfaces pour L'Environnement et la Santé (LCMCP-SMiLES), Laboratoire de Chimie de la Matière Condensée de Paris (LCMCP), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut des Sciences de la Terre de Paris (iSTeP), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Institut des matériaux de Paris-Centre (IMPC), Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris - Chimie ParisTech-PSL (ENSCP), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Ecole Superieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris (ESPCI Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement [Lyon] (LGL-TPE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon), PaleoEnvironnements et PaleobioSphere (PEPS), Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Collège de France (CdF)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Collège de France (CdF)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris- Chimie ParisTech-PSL (ENSCP)-ESPCI ParisTech-Sorbonne Université (SU), Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon, 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), École normale supérieure - Lyon (ENS Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL), and Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: 010506 paleontology, Aqueous solution, Fluorapatite, Inorganic chemistry, Paleontology, Hydroxylapatite, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, Oceanography, 01 natural sciences, Apatite, chemistry.chemical_compound, Crystallinity, chemistry, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], [SDU.STU.GC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry, visual_art, visual_art.visual_art_medium, Carbonate, Dissolution, Fluoride, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Geology, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Earth-Surface Processes
Abstract: International audience; The chemical and isotopic compositions of biogenic apatite are important geochemical markers, which can suffer modifications during fossilisation. Compared with modern ones, fossil apatites generally exhibit variations in carbonate content, enrichment in fluorine, incorporation of trace elements and an increase in crystallinity parameters. Detailed understanding of these transformations induced by fossilisation should help assess the preservation of geochemical records in apatites. In this contribution, we investigate the transformation of modern bone altered under controlled conditions. Modern bone samples were soaked in aqueous solutions of neutral to alkaline pH (9–10) for one and three weeks at various temperatures (20 and 70 °C) and experiments were duplicated in fluorine-free and in 10−2 M NaF solutions. Bone transformation was monitored through the modifications of chemical (F, Ca, P) and isotopic (δ13C, δ18Oc, δ18Op) composition as well as using vibrational (ATR-FTIR, Raman) and solid-state (1H, 13C, 19F) NMR spectroscopies. The observed modifications sustain a transformation mechanism through partial dissolution of biogenic apatite and precipitation of secondary apatite. This transformation occurs irrespective of the presence or absence of fluorine and leads to the formation of carbonate-bearing fluorapatite or carbonate-bearing hydroxylapatite, respectively. The fraction of secondary apatite seems to be limited to ~60%, suggesting that its formation has a protecting role against further dissolution of the primary apatite. The observation of clumped (CO32−, F−) defects in the structural B-site of some samples as well as perturbation of the isotopic compositions attest to carbonate incorporation in the secondary apatite. Although the incorporation of fluoride ions can serve as a probe revealing dissolution-recrystallization of bone, the present study also underlines the difficulty to systematically relate mineralogical transformations to an open-system behaviour in bioapatite.
Published: 2019

46. Thermal history of the Northern Taiwanese slate belt and implications for wedge growth during the Neogene arc-continent collision

Author: Chia-Yu Lu, Jacques Malavieille, Olivier Beyssac, Steven Kidder, Hao Cheng Sun, Yue-Gau Chen, Yu-Chang Chan, Chih Tung Chen, National Central University, Zhongli, Institute of Earth Sciences [Tapei] (IES Sinica), Academia Sinica, Laboratoire de géologie de l'ENS (LGE), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), National Taiwan University [Taiwan] (NTU), Department of Geosciences, National Taiwan University, Department of Geosciences, Géosciences Montpellier, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles (UA), Laboratoire de géologie de l'ENS (LGENS), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), and Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université des Antilles (UA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
Subjects: [SDU.STU.TE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Tectonics, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Metamorphism, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, Neogene, Collision, 01 natural sciences, Wedge (geometry), Paleontology, Geophysics, Geochemistry and Petrology, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Thermal, Geology, ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: International audience
Published: 2019

47. Erosion of the Southern Alps of New Zealand during the last deglaciation

Author: Faye E Nelson, Thierry Adatte, Olivier Beyssac, Ruohong Jiao, Simon C. Cox, Frédéric Herman, Helen L. Neil, German Research Centre for Geosciences - Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam (GFZ), Research School of Earth Sciences [Canberra] (RSES), Australian National University (ANU), Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de Géologie et d'Hydrogéologie, Université de Neuchâtel (UNINE), Department of Physics (Trinity College Dublin), Trinity College Dublin, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research [Wellington] (NIWA), and 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)
Subjects: 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], Erosion, Deglaciation, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, Geology, Physical geography, [SDU.STU.GM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geomorphology, [SDU.STU.GL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Glaciology, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: During the Quaternary, periodic glaciations transformed mountain landscapes. However, characterizing the way in which mountain erosion changes between glacier- and river-dominated conditions has been elusive. Here, using samples from an offshore sedimentary core, we estimated the spatial distribution of erosion in the southern part of the Southern Alps of New Zealand during a full transition from the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), ca. 20 ka, to the last millennium. Raman spectroscopy analyses of carbonaceous material revealed a marked change in the sediment provenance, which we interpreted to reflect the evolving erosion pattern of the mountain range. Over the Holocene, since at least ca. 9 ka, erosion was focused on the chlorite zone schist within the upper reaches of the valleys (>15–20 km distance from the mountain front), possibly dominated by large-magnitude landslides. During the last glaciation, the proportion of sediments from the biotite schist and higher-grade metamorphic rocks in the lower-lying areas closer to the mountain front (
Published: 2018

48. Tectonometamorphic evolution of the Atbashi high- P units (Kyrgyz CAOB, Tien Shan): Implications for the closure of the Turkestan Ocean and continental subduction-exhumation of the South Kazakh continental margin

Author: Anthony Jourdon, Sylvain Gallet, Raphael Melis, Yann Rolland, Stéphane Guillot, Pierre Lanari, Chloé Loury, Carole Petit, Olivier Beyssac, Clément Ganino, Patrick Monié, Géoazur (GEOAZUR 7329), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-COMUE Université Côte d'Azur (2015-2019) (COMUE UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud]), Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre), Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux (IFSTTAR)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR219-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), University of Geneva, Laboratoire de tectonique (LT), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Géosciences Montpellier, Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université des Antilles (UA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD [France-Sud])-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur, Université Côte d'Azur (UCA)-Université Côte d'Azur (UCA), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-PRES Université de Grenoble-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR219-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux (IFSTTAR)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF), Laboratoire de Géodynamique des Chaines Alpines (LGCA), Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut national de recherche en sciences et technologies pour l'environnement et l'agriculture (IRSTEA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry])-PRES Université de Grenoble-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR219-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux (IFSTTAR)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-PRES Université de Grenoble-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR219-Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux (IFSTTAR), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC), and Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université des Antilles (UA)
Subjects: Blueschist, [SDU.STU.TE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Tectonics, geography, Accretionary wedge, geography.geographical_feature_category, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, Subduction, Geochemistry, P–T–t history, Geology, Mélange, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Phengite, HP metamorphism, Craton, Central Asian Orogenic Belt, South Tien Shan, Continental margin, 13. Climate action, Geochemistry and Petrology, continental subduction, Eclogite, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: International audience; The South Tien Shan (STS) belt results from the last collision event in the western Central Asian Orogenic Belt (CAOB). Understanding its formation is of prime importance in the general framework of the CAOB. The Atbashi Range preserves high‐P (HP) rocks along the STS suture, but still, its global metamorphic evolution remains poorly constrained. Several HP units have been identified: (a) a HP tectonic mélange including boudins of mafic eclogites in a sedimentary matrix, (b) a large (>100 km long) high‐P metasedimentary unit (HPMU) and (c) a lower blueschist facies accretionary prism. Raman Spectroscopy on carbonaceous material combined with phengite and chlorite multiequilibria and isochemical phase diagram modelling indicates that the HPMU recorded homogeneous P–T conditions of 23–25 kbar and 560–570°C along the whole unit. 40Ar/39Ar dating on phengite from the HPMU ranges between 328 and 319 Ma at regional scale. These ages are interpreted as (re‐) crystallization ages of phengite during Tmax conditions at a pressure range of 20–25 kbar. Thermobarometry on samples from the HP tectonic mélange provides similar metamorphic peak conditions. Thermobarometry on the blueschist to lower greenschist facies accretionary prism indicates that it underwent P–T conditions of 5–6 kbar and 290–340°C, highlighting a 17–20 kbar pressure gap between the HPMU‐tectonic mélange units and the accretionary prism. Comparison with available geochronological data suggests a very short time span between the prograde path (340 Ma), HP metamorphic peak (330 Ma), the Tmax (328–319 Ma) and the final exhumation of the HPMU (303–295 Ma). Extrusion of the HPMU, accommodated by a basal thrust and an upper detachment, was driven by buoyant forces from 70–75 km up to 60 km depth, which directly followed continental subduction and detachment of the HPMU. At crustal depths, extrusion was controlled by collisional tectonics up to shallow levels. Lithological homogeneity of the HPMU and its continental‐derived character from the North Tien Shan suggest this unit corresponds to the hyper‐extended continental margin of the Kazakh continent, subducted southward below the north continental active margin of the Tarim craton. Integration of the available geological data allows us to propose a general geodynamic scenario for Tien Shan during the Carboniferous with a combination of (a) N‐dipping subduction below the Kazakh margin of Middle Tien Shan until 390–340 Ma and (b) S‐dipping subduction of remaining Turkestan marginal basins between 340 and 320 Ma.
Published: 2018

49. Chemical nature of the 3.4 Ga Strelley Pool microfossils

Author: Corentin Le Guillou, François Robert, Kenichiro Sugitani, Sylvain Bernard, Julien Alleon, Olivier Beyssac, Sol Agro et hydrosystème Spatialisation (SAS), AGROCAMPUS OUEST-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Institut de minéralogie et de physique des milieux condensés (IMPMC), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-IPG PARIS-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Analyse, Géométrie et Modélisation (AGM - UMR 8088), Université de Cergy Pontoise (UCP), Université Paris-Seine-Université Paris-Seine-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-AGROCAMPUS OUEST, Institut Européen des membranes (IEM), Université de Montpellier (UM)-Université Montpellier 2 - Sciences et Techniques (UM2)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier (ENSCM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire de géologie de l'ENS (LGE), Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS), Unité Matériaux et Transformations - UMR 8207 (UMET), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lille-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille (ENSCL)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Lille (ENSCL)-Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Lille, ENSCL, CNRS, INRA, Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie [IMPMC], and Unité Matériaux et Transformations - UMR 8207 [UMET]
Subjects: 0303 health sciences, Earth science, Window (geology), Biosphere, [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences, Geology, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, Geologic record, 01 natural sciences, Organic molecules, 03 medical and health sciences, 13. Climate action, Geochemistry and Petrology, [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics], [SDU.STU.GC]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Geochemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Earth (classical element), ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS, 030304 developmental biology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences
Abstract: International audience; The biogenicity of putative traces of life found in early-Archean rocks is strongly debated. To date, only equivocal lines of evidence have been reported, which has prevented a full consensus from emerging. Here we report elemental and molecular data from individual organic microfossils preserved within the 3.4 billion-year-old cherts of the Strelley Pool Formation, Western Australia. The present results support the growing body of evidence advocating their biogenicity, promoting them as the oldest known authentic organic microfossils. These microfossils consist of nitrogen- and oxygen- rich organic molecules that have been only slightly degraded despite experiencing temperatures of ~300 °C. Such molecular preservation emphasises the palaeobiological potential of the Earth’s oldest geological record, whilst providing a promising window into the early biosphere.
Published: 2018

50. Nanoscale chemical zoning of chlorite and implications for low-temperature thermometry: Application to the Glarus Alps (Switzerland)

Author: Christian Chopin, Franck Bourdelle, Olivier Beyssac, Teddy Parra, Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Lycée Elisa Lemonnier, Laboratoire de géologie de l'ENS (LGENS), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Département des Géosciences - ENS Paris, École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS Paris), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL), École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL), and Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL)
Subjects: Glarus, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, thermometry, Metamorphic rock, Geochemistry, [SDU.STU.PE]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Petrography, Metamorphism, Geology, 010502 geochemistry & geophysics, 01 natural sciences, Local equilibrium, chemistry.chemical_compound, chemistry, chlorite, Geochemistry and Petrology, low-grade metamorphism, Spatial ecology, Zoning, Transect, Chlorite, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Terrane, [SDU.STU.MI]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Mineralogy
Abstract: International audience; A combination of adapted chlorite thermometry and high-spatial-resolution analytical techniques (TEM-EDX/FIB) shows that the low-grade metamorphic chlorites of the Glarus Alps, Central Alps (Switzerland), do not record the peak metamorphic conditions as commonly assumed in previous studies of this reference area for low-grade metamorphism. Chlorites have rather recorded several stages of the retrograde path, through an intracrystalline nanometric-scale compositional zoning. The consistency of the nanoscale zoning patterns observed both within sample and along the transect suggests that local equilibrium was achieved at this spatial scale and maintained during growth or re-equilibration. Applying recent thermobarometers, we highlight that chlorites recorded a distinct behaviour between the northern and southern part of the studied transect: the south of the Glarus area displays a regular P-T exhumation path, from 3.0 ± 0.2 kbar and 310 ± 20 °C for maximum P-T (estimated with conventional thermometers), to ~0.8 kbar and ~220 °C according to chlorite crystal-core analysis, and to ~0.3 kbar and ~190 °C according to chlorite crystal-rim analysis. On the contrary, the north of the Glarus area shows an apparent break in the exhumation, with P estimates from chlorite crystal rims (~1.3 kbar) higher than from chlorite crystal cores (~0.8 kbar). Even if the absolute pressure values are fraught with large uncertainty, their contrasting core/rim pattern is not model dependent. We try to correlate these new thermobarometric results with independent data to refine the exhumation scenario of the North-Helvetic flyschs, confirming differential uplift along the transect. This reappraisal of Glarus chlorite thermometry demonstrates that an adapted thermometry/analysis protocol opens new prospects for investigating the evolution of low-grade metamorphic terranes.
Published: 2018

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