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

EL Scheller, J Razzell Hollis, EL Cardarelli, A Steele… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, Mars, in February 2021. We used the
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and …

Diverse organic-mineral associations in Jezero crater, Mars

S Sharma, RD Roppel, AE Murphy, LW Beegle… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The presence and distribution of preserved organic matter on the surface of Mars can
provide key information about the Martian carbon cycle and the potential of the planet to host …

On the diversity and formation modes of martian minerals

RM Hazen, RT Downs, SM Morrison… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A systematic survey of 161 known and postulated minerals originating on Mars points to 20
different mineral‐forming processes (paragenetic modes), which are a subset of formation …

Samples collected from the floor of Jezero Crater with the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover

JI Simon, K Hickman‐Lewis, BA Cohen… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The first samples collected by the Mars 2020 mission represent units exposed on the Jezero
Crater floor, from the potentially oldest Séítah formation outcrops to the potentially youngest …

Sampling Mars: Geologic context and preliminary characterization of samples collected by the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission

CDK Herd, T Bosak, EM Hausrath… - Proceedings of the …, 2025 - pnas.org
The NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission has collected samples of rock, regolith,
and atmosphere within the Noachian-aged Jezero Crater, once the site of a delta-lake …

Inorganic interpretation of luminescent materials encountered by the Perseverance rover on Mars

EL Scheller, T Bosak, FM McCubbin, K Williford… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
A major objective of the Mars 2020 mission is to sample rocks in Jezero crater that may
preserve organic matter for later return to Earth. Using an ultraviolet Raman and …

Diverse and highly differentiated lava suite in Jezero crater, Mars: Constraints on intracrustal magmatism revealed by Mars 2020 PIXL

ME Schmidt, TV Kizovski, Y Liu… - Science …, 2025 - science.org
The Jezero crater floor features a suite of related, iron-rich lavas that were examined and
sampled by the Mars 2020 rover Perseverance, and whose textures, minerals, and …

[HTML][HTML] Perchlorates on Mars: Occurrence and implications for putative life on the Red Planet

P Rzymski, A Losiak, J Heinz, M Szukalska, E Florek… - Icarus, 2024 - Elsevier
The discovery of perchlorate in martian regolith, ubiquitously distributed at levels far
exceeding those noted on Earth, raises challenges for in situ resource utilization and life …

Carbonate detection with SuperCam in igneous rocks on the floor of Jezero crater, Mars

E Clavé, K Benzerara, PY Meslin… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Perseverance explored two geological units on the floor of Jezero Crater over the first 420
Martian days of the Mars2020 mission. These units, the Máaz and Séítah formations, are …

Overview and results from the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover's first science campaign on the Jezero crater floor

VZ Sun, KP Hand, KM Stack, KA Farley… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
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 …