ChemCam is a remote sensing instrument suite on board the “Curiosity” rover (NASA) that
uses Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) to provide the elemental composition …

To assess Mars' potential for both harboring life and providing useable resources for future
human exploration, it is of paramount importance to comprehend the water situation on the …

Mars accumulated and differentiated into crust, mantle and core within a few tens of millions
of years of Solar System formation. Formation of Hellas, which has been adopted as the …

The Antarctic Dry Valleys (ADV) are generally classified as a hyper-arid, cold-polar desert.
The region has long been considered an important terrestrial analog for Mars because of its …

Petrologic investigations of martian rocks have been accomplished by mineralogical,
geochemical, and textural analyses from Mars rovers (with geologic context provided by …

Abstract The Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover found evidence for groundwater activity in
the Meridiani Planum region of Mars, in the form of aeolian and fluvial sediments composed …

Analysis of visible to near infrared reflectance data from the MRO CRISM hyperspectral
imager has revealed the presence of an ovoid-shaped landform, approximately 3 by 5km in …

Chromatographic analysis of the Cumberland mudstone in Gale crater by the Sample
Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument revealed the detection of two to three isomers of …

Mars was warmer and wetter during the early to middle Noachian, before a hydrologic and
climatic transition in the late Noachian led to a decrease in erosion rates, a change in valley …

The Mars rover Opportunity has explored Victoria crater, a~ 750-meter eroded impact crater
formed in sulfate-rich sedimentary rocks. Impact-related stratigraphy is preserved in the …