Soil diversity and hydration as observed by ChemCam at Gale Crater, Mars
- Meslin, P.-Y.
- Gasnault, O.
- Forni, O.
- Schröder, S.
- Cousin, A.
- Berger, G.
- Clegg, S.M.
- Lasue, J.
- Maurice, S.
- Sautter, V.
- Le Mouélic, S.
- Wiens, R.C.
- Fabre, C.
- Goetz, W.
- Bish, D.
- Mangold, N.
- Ehlmann, B.
- Lanza, N.
- Harri, A.-M.
- Anderson, R.
- Rampe, E.
- McConnochie, T.H.
- Pinet, P.
- Blaney, D.
- Léveillé, R.
- Archer, D.
- Barraclough, B.
- Bender, S.
- Blake, D.
- Blank, J.G.
- Bridges, N.
- Clark, B.C.
- DeFlores, L.
- Delapp, D.
- Dromart, G.
- Dyar, M.D.
- Fisk, M.
- Gondet, B.
- Grotzinger, J.
- Herkenhoff, K.
- Johnson, J.
- Lacour, J.-L.
- Langevin, Y.
- Leshin, L.
- Lewin, E.
- Madsen, M.B.
- Melikechi, N.
- Mezzacappa, A.
- Mischna, M.A.
- Moores, J.E.
- Newsom, H.
- Ollila, A.
- Perez, R.
- Renno, N.
- Sirven, J.-B.
- Tokar, R.
- De La Torre, M.
- D'Uston, L.
- Vaniman, D.
- Yingst, A.
- MSL Science Team, the
- NWO-NSO: The role of perchlorates in the preservation of organic compounds on Mars
- Petrology
DOIAbstract
The ChemCam instrument, which provides insight into martian soil chemistry at the submillimeter scale, identified two principal soil types along the Curiosity rover traverse: a fine-grained mafic type and a locally derived, coarse-grained felsic type. The mafic soil component is representative of widespread martian soils and is similar in composition to the martian dust. It possesses a ubiquitous hydrogen signature in ChemCam spectra, corresponding to the hydration of the amorphous phases found in the soil by the CheMin instrument. This hydration likely accounts for an important fraction of the global hydration of the surface seen by previous orbital measurements. ChemCam analyses did not reveal any significant exchange of water vapor betwe...
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