Aqueously altered igneous rocks sampled on the floor of Jezero crater, Mars

KA Farley, KM Stack, DL Shuster, BHN Horgan… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, Mars, to investigate ancient lake and river
deposits. We report observations of the crater floor, below the crater's sedimentary delta …

Compositionally and density stratified igneous terrain in Jezero crater, Mars

RC Wiens, A Udry, O Beyssac, C Quantin-Nataf… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Before Perseverance, Jezero crater's floor was variably hypothesized to have a lacustrine,
lava, volcanic airfall, or aeolian origin. SuperCam observations in the first 286 Mars days on …

Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy in space applications: Review and prospects

H Saeidfirozeh, P Kubelík, V Laitl, A Křivková… - TrAC Trends in …, 2024 - Elsevier
This review describes the principles and summarizes the challenges of analytical methods
based on optical emission spectroscopy (OES) in space applications, with a particular focus …

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 …

A Mars 2020 Perseverance SuperCam Perspective on the Igneous Nature of the Máaz Formation at Jezero Crater and Link With Séítah, Mars

A Udry, A Ostwald, V Sautter, A Cousin… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Máaz formation consists of the first lithologies in Jezero crater analyzed by the Mars
2020 Perseverance rover. This formation, investigated from Sols (Martian days) 1 to 201 and …

Petrological traverse of the olivine cumulate Séítah formation at Jezero crater, Mars: A perspective from SuperCam onboard Perseverance

O Beyssac, O Forni, A Cousin, A Udry… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Séítah is the stratigraphically lowest formation visited by Perseverance in the Jezero crater
floor. We present the data obtained by SuperCam: texture by imagery, chemistry by Laser …

Astrobiological potential of rocks acquired by the Perseverance rover at a sedimentary fan front in Jezero crater, Mars

T Bosak, DL Shuster, EL Scheller, S Siljeström… - AGU …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The Perseverance rover has collected seven oriented samples of sedimentary rocks, all
likely older than the oldest signs of widespread life on Earth, at the exposed base of the …

Statistical comparison of predictive models for quantitative analysis and classification in the framework of LIBS spectroscopy: A tutorial

L Duponchel, C Fabre, B Bousquet… - Spectrochimica Acta Part …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) is a widely accepted technique
used for both classification and quantification purposes considering complex and …

Aqueous alteration of the Vastitas Borealis Formation at the Tianwen-1 landing site

C Liu, Z Ling, Z Wu, J Zhang, J Chen, X Fu… - … Earth & Environment, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The Vastitas Borealis Formation is a Hesperian-aged sedimentary unit that mainly
covers the Martian northern plains. Its environment of formation is uncertain but may be …

Regolith of the crater floor units, Jezero crater, Mars: Textures, composition, and implications for provenance

A Vaughan, ME Minitti, EL Cardarelli… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A multi‐instrument study of the regolith of Jezero crater floor units by the Perseverance rover
has identified three types of regolith: fine‐grained, coarse‐grained, and mixed‐type …