Y‐Mars: An Astrobiological Analogue of Martian Mudstone

• Main Authors: Stevens, Adam H., Steer, Elizabeth, McDonald, Alison, Amador, Elena S., Cockell, Charles S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union 2018
• Subjects: The ''Y''; Yellowknife
• Online Access: https://authors.library.caltech.edu/86567/; https://authors.library.caltech.edu/86567/1/Stevens_et_al-2018-Earth_and_Space_Science.pdf; https://authors.library.caltech.edu/86567/2/ess2176-t-sup-0001-2017ea000318-si.docx; https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20180523-130855004

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission has collected evidence of a long‐lasting habitable environment in the Sheepbed sediments of Gale Crater on Mars. The geochemistry of this mudstone suggests that the lake filling the crater in Mars' past had a neutral pH and low salinity and contained...