Buried Volcano-Hydrothermal Systems and Minerals on Mars

• Main Authors: Rouwet, Dmitri, Inguaggiato, Claudio, Leone, Giovanni
• Other Authors: Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia (INGV), Sezione Bologna, Bologna, Italia, Universidad de Atacama, Instituo de Astronomía y Ciencias Planetarias, Copiapó, Chile
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Heidelberg 2021
• Subjects: White Island
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2122/15044; https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-84103-4_7; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84103-4_7

The pressure and temperature conditions on planet Mars have probably never permitted the presence of liquid water at its surface, as witnessed by unaltered olivines of any age since the Naochian. Nevertheless, iron sulphates at the surface suggest hydrothermal activity at some point in time and spac...