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Sedimentary Geology at Meridiani Planum, Mars

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Edited By: SW Squyres and Andrew H Knoll
189 pages
Publisher: Elsevier
Sedimentary Geology at Meridiani Planum, Mars
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  • Sedimentary Geology at Meridiani Planum, Mars ISBN: 9780444522504 Hardback Dec 2005 Out of Print #159676
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In January of 2004, twin robotic explorers, Spirit and Opportunity, landed on Mars. Expected to last for 90 days, the two rovers explored the Martian surface for nearly two years. Their objective was to search for evidence of ancient water on Mars, and to determine if Mars ever had conditions that would have been suitable for life. Opportunity, landed on Meridiani Planum, a smooth plateau near the Martian equator, coming to rest in a small impact feature named Eagle Crater. After leaving Eagle Crater, Opportunity drove eastward to Endurance Crater, a much larger carter that allowed access to deeper and older rocks. At these locations, Opportunity, found strong evidence for ancient water on Mars. This evidence includes blueberries, small concretions rich in hematite that precipitated from water. Other evidence includes rocks that ware made largely of sulphate salts, deposited when water evaporated, and rocks that preserve ancient ripples that formed billions of years ago as water flowed over sand on Mars. The conditions long ago at Meridiani Planum could have been suitable for some simple forms of life. Whether life could have developed there, however, is a more difficult question.

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1. Sedimentary Rocks at Meridiani Planum: Origin, diagenesis, and implications for life on Mars (S.W. Squyres, A.H. Knoll) 2. Stratigraphy and Sedimentology of a Dry to Wet Eolian Depositional System, Burns Formation, Meridiani Planum, Mars (J.P. Grotzinger, R.E. Arvidson, et al.) 3. Chemistry and Mineralogy of Outcrops at Meridiani Planum (B.C. Clark, R.V. Morris, et al.) 4. Provenance and Diagenesis of the Evaporite-Bearing Burns Formation, Meridiani Planum, Mars (S.M. McLennan, J.F. Bell III, et al.) 5. Geochemical Modeling of Evaporation Processes on Mars: Insight from the sedimentary record at Meridiani Planum (N.J. Tosca, S.M. McLennan, et al.) 6. The Rio Tinto Basin, Spain: Mineralogy, sedimentary geobiology, and implications for interpretation of outcrop rocks at Meridiani Planum, Mars (D. Fernandez-Remolar, R.V. Morris, et al.) 7. Hematite Spherules in Basaltic Tephra Altered Under Aqueous, Acid-Sulfate Conditions on Mauna Kea Volcano, Hawaii: Possible clues for the occurrence of hematite-rich spherules in the Burns formation at Meridiani Planum, Mars (R.V. Morris, D.W. Ming, et al.) 8. An Astrobiological Perspective on Meridiani Planum (A.H. Knoll, M. Carr, et al.)

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Out of Print
Edited By: SW Squyres and Andrew H Knoll
189 pages
Publisher: Elsevier
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