| Literature DB >> 15297657 |
S W Squyres1, R E Arvidson, J F Bell, J Brückner, N A Cabrol, W Calvin, M H Carr, P R Christensen, B C Clark, L Crumpler, D J Des Marais, C D'Uston, T Economou, J Farmer, W Farrand, W Folkner, M Golombek, S Gorevan, J A Grant, R Greeley, J Grotzinger, L Haskin, K E Herkenhoff, S Hviid, J Johnson, G Klingelhöfer, A Knoll, G Landis, M Lemmon, R Li, M B Madsen, M C Malin, S M McLennan, H Y McSween, D W Ming, J Moersch, R V Morris, T Parker, J W Rice, L Richter, R Rieder, M Sims, M Smith, P Smith, L A Soderblom, R Sullivan, H Wänke, T Wdowiak, M Wolff, A Yen.
Abstract
The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and its Athena science payload have been used to investigate a landing site in Gusev crater. Gusev is hypothesized to be the site of a former lake, but no clear evidence for lacustrine sedimentation has been found to date. Instead, the dominant lithology is basalt, and the dominant geologic processes are impact events and eolian transport. Many rocks exhibit coatings and other characteristics that may be evidence for minor aqueous alteration. Any lacustrine sediments that may exist at this location within Gusev apparently have been buried by lavas that have undergone subsequent impact disruption.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID： 15297657 DOI： 10.1126/science.1100194
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728