Mars methane detection and variability at Gale crater

CR Webster, PR Mahaffy, SK Atreya, GJ Flesch… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Reports of plumes or patches of methane in the martian atmosphere that vary over monthly
time scales have defied explanation to date. From in situ measurements made over a 20 …

Compositions of coarse and fine particles in martian soils at gale: A window into the production of soils

A Cousin, PY Meslin, RC Wiens, W Rapin, N Mangold… - Icarus, 2015 - Elsevier
The ChemCam instrument onboard the Curiosity rover provides for the first time an
opportunity to study martian soils at a sub-millimeter resolution. In this work, we analyzed 24 …