Fluid composition and mineral reactions at Yellowknife Bay, Mars

• Main Authors: Bridges, J. C., Schwenzer, S. P., Leveille, R., Westall, F., Ollila, A., Wiens, R., Mangold, N., Berger, G., McAdam, A. C.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Yellowknife; Yellowknife Bay
• Online Access: https://oro.open.ac.uk/39392/; http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2014/pdf/1944.pdf

The Curiosity rover of Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) has identified and analysed, for the first time on Mars, a set of mudstones with nodules and Mg-rich veining, recording a history of deposition within a fluviolacustrine environment followed by low temperature alteration. The composition and miner...