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 …

Reflectance of Jezero crater floor: 2. Mineralogical interpretation

L Mandon, C Quantin‐Nataf, C Royer… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Perseverance rover landed in the ancient lakebed of Jezero crater, Mars on February
2021. Here, we assess the mineralogy of the rocks, regolith, and dust measured during the …

Mineralogy, morphology, and emplacement history of the Maaz formation on the Jezero crater floor from orbital and rover observations

B Horgan, A Udry, M Rice, S Alwmark… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The first samples collected by the Perseverance rover on the Mars 2020 mission were from
the Maaz formation, a lava plain that covers most of the floor of Jezero crater. Laboratory …

Spectral Variability of Rocks and Soils on the Jezero Crater Floor: A Summary of Multispectral Observations From Perseverance's Mastcam‐Z Instrument

MS Rice, JR Johnson, CC Million… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
NASA's Mars‐2020 Perseverance rover spent its first year in Jezero crater studying the mafic
lava flows of the Máaz formation and the ultramafic cumulates of the Séítah formation, both …

A new shergottite martian meteorite analog system (SAS) for alteration experiments

V Fortier, V Debaille, V Dehant, B Bultel - Planetary and Space Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Martian rocky material available on Earth has been so far composed of meteorites and is
limited in terms of mass and number. This restricted amount directly impairs the possibility to …

Multistage aqueous alteration in CeC 022 and other nakhlites

L Krämer Ruggiu, B Devouard… - … & Planetary Science, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We studied Caleta el Cobre 022, a nakhlite showing a high abundance of aqueous
alteration products, commonly called “iddingsite” and compared it to eight other nakhlites, in …

Mineral Indicators of Geologically Recent Past Habitability on Mars

R Hart, D Cardace - Life, 2023 - mdpi.com
We provide new support for habitable microenvironments in the near-subsurface of Mars,
hosted in Fe-and Mg-rich rock units, and present a list of minerals that can serve as …