Clay and magnetite formation at Yellowknife Bay, Mars

• Main Authors: Bridges, J. C., Schwenzer, S. P., Leveille, R., Westall, F., Wiens, R. C., Mangold, N., Bristow, T., Edwards, P., Berger, G.
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Yellowknife; Yellowknife Bay
• Online Access: https://oro.open.ac.uk/40891/; http://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/metsoc2014/pdf/5344.pdf

The Curiosity Rover of Mars Science Laboratory, has analysed a set of mudstones at the Yellowknife Bay locality of Gale Crater, that record a history of deposition within a habitable, fluvio-lacustrine environment followed by low T alteration. The composition and mineralogical information preserved...