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Evidence for Amazonian acidic liquid water on Mars—A reinterpretation of MER mission results by Alberto G. Fairén; Dirk Schulze-Makuch; Alexis P. Rodríguez; Wolfgang Fink; Alfonso F. Davila; Esther R. Uceda; Roberto Furfaro; Ricardo Amils; Christopher P. McKay is a Physics and Astronomy article available to read on EtoBox.
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The Mars Exploration Rover (MER) missions have confirmed aqueous activity on Mars. Here we review the analyses of the field-based MER data, and conclude that some weathering processes in Meridiani Planum and Gusev crater are better explained by late diagenetic water-rock interactions than by early diagenesis only. At Meridiani, the discovery of jarosite by MER-1 Opportunity indicates acidic aqueous activity, evaporation, and desiccation of rock materials. MER-based information, placed into the context of published data, point to local and limited aqueous activity during geologically recent times in Meridiani. Pre-Amazonian environmental changes (including important variations in the near-surface groundwater reservoirs, impact cratering, and global dust storms and other pervasive wind-related erosion) are too extreme for pulverulent jarosite to survive over extended time periods, and therefore we argue instead that jarosite deposits must have formed in a climatically more stable period. Any deposits of pre-existent concretionary jarosite surviving up to the Amazonian would not have reached completion in the highly saline and acidic brines occurring at Meridiani. MER-2 Spirit has als
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- Author
- Alberto G. Fairén; Dirk Schulze-Makuch; Alexis P. Rodríguez; Wolfgang Fink; Alfonso F. Davila; Esther R. Uceda; Roberto Furfaro; Ricardo Amils; Christopher P. McKay
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0032-0633)
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Physics and Astronomy (Physical Sciences)