Identification of hydrated silicate minerals on Mars using MRO‐CRISM: Geologic context near Nili Fossae and implications for aqueous alteration

BL Ehlmann, JF Mustard, GA Swayze… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The Noachian terrain west of the Isidis basin hosts a diverse collection of alteration minerals
in rocks comprising varied geomorphic units within a 100,000 km2 region in and near the …

A synthesis of Martian aqueous mineralogy after 1 Mars year of observations from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

SL Murchie, JF Mustard, BL Ehlmann… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Martian aqueous mineral deposits have been examined and characterized using data
acquired during Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter's (MRO) primary science phase, including …

Discovery of jarosite within the Mawrth Vallis region of Mars: Implications for the geologic history of the region

WH Farrand, TD Glotch, JW Rice Jr, JA Hurowitz… - Icarus, 2009 - Elsevier
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 …

Columbus crater and other possible groundwater‐fed paleolakes of Terra Sirenum, Mars

JJ Wray, RE Milliken, CM Dundas… - Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Columbus crater in the Terra Sirenum region of the Martian southern highlands contains
light‐toned layered deposits with interbedded sulfate and phyllosilicate minerals, a rare …

Mineralogy of Juventae Chasma: Sulfates in the light‐toned mounds, mafic minerals in the bedrock, and hydrated silica and hydroxylated ferric sulfate on the plateau

JL Bishop, M Parente, CM Weitz… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Juventae Chasma contains four light‐toned sulfate‐bearing mounds (denoted here as A–D
from west to east) inside the trough, mafic outcrops at the base of the mounds and in the wall …

Identification of the Ca-sulfate bassanite in Mawrth Vallis, Mars

JJ Wray, SW Squyres, LH Roach, JL Bishop… - Icarus, 2010 - Elsevier
The region surrounding the Mawrth Vallis outflow channel on Mars hosts thick layered
deposits containing diverse phyllosilicate minerals. Here we report detection of the Ca …

Diverse aqueous environments on ancient Mars revealed in the southern highlands

JJ Wray, SL Murchie, SW Squyres, FP Seelos… - …, 2009 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
High-resolution spectral images reveal many new exposures of hydrated minerals across
the Noachian southern highlands of Mars. Several different phyllosilicates are observed …

What the ancient phyllosilicates at Mawrth Vallis can tell us about possible habitability on early Mars

JL Bishop, D Loizeau, NK McKeown, L Saper… - Planetary and Space …, 2013 - Elsevier
Phyllosilicate deposits on Mars provide an opportunity to evaluate aqueous activity and the
possibility that habitable environments may have existed during the Noachian period there …

Mineralogy and stratigraphy of phyllosilicate‐bearing and dark mantling units in the greater Mawrth Vallis/west Arabia Terra area: Constraints on geological origin

EZ Noe Dobrea, JL Bishop… - Journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Analyses of MRO/CRISM images of the greater Mawrth Vallis region of Mars affirm the
presence of two primary phyllosilicate assemblages throughout a region∼ 1000× 1000 km …

Characterization of phyllosilicates observed in the central Mawrth Vallis region, Mars, their potential formational processes, and implications for past climate

NK McKeown, JL Bishop… - Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Mawrth Vallis contains one of the largest exposures of phyllosilicates on Mars. Nontronite,
montmorillonite, kaolinite, and hydrated silica have been identified throughout the region …