Styles of aqueous alteration on Mars

• Published in: The American mineralogist Vol. 101; no. 9; pp. 1925 - 1926
• Main Author: Cloutis, Edward A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Washington Mineralogical Society of America 01.09.2016; Walter de Gruyter GmbH
• Subjects: alteration; aquatic environment; CRISM; Extraterrestrial geology; fibroferrite; Geology; hydroxyl ion; Mars; Minerals; optical spectra; planets; reflectance; sheet silicates; silicates; Spacecraft; spectra; surface water; terrestrial planets

While phyllosilicates were the first water-bearing minerals inferred to be present on Mars from analysis of Earth-based telescopic spectra (McCord et al. 1982), it took recent spacecraft missions to enable mapping the global distribution and determining the types of specific species that are present...