A Habitable Fluvio-Lacustrine Environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars
International audience The Curiosity rover discovered fine-grained sedimentary rocks, which are inferred to represent an ancient lake and preserve evidence of an environment that would have been suited to support a martian biosphere founded on chemolithoautotrophy. This aqueous environment was chara...
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International audience The Curiosity rover discovered fine-grained sedimentary rocks, which are inferred to represent an ancient lake and preserve evidence of an environment that would have been suited to support a martian biosphere founded on chemolithoautotrophy. This aqueous environment was characterized by neutral pH, low salinity, and variable redox states of both iron and sulfur species. Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen, and phosphorus were measured directly as key biogenic elements; by inference, phosphorus is assumed to have been available. The environment probably had a minimum duration of hundreds to tens of thousands of years. These results highlight the biological viability of fluvial-lacustrine environments in the post-Noachian history of Mars. |
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Grotzinger, J. P. Sumner, D. Y. Kah, L. C. Stack, K. Gupta, S. Edgar, L. Rubin, D. Lewis, K. Schieber, J. Mangold, N. Milliken, R. Conrad, P. G. Desmarais, D. Farmer, J. Siebach, K. Calef, F. Hurowitz, J. Mclennan, S. M. Ming, D. Vaniman, D. Crisp, J. Vasavada, A. Edgett, K. S. Malin, M. Blake, D. Gellert, R. Mahaffy, P. Wiens, R. C. Maurice, S. Grant, J. A. Wilson, Shelby Anderson, R. C. Beegle, L. Arvidson, R. Hallet, B. Sletten, R. S. Rice, M. Bell, J. Griffes, J. Ehlmann, B. Anderson, R. B. Bristow, T. F. Dietrich, W. E. Dromart, G. Eigenbrode, J. Fraeman, A. Hardgrove, C. Herkenhoff, K. Jandura, L. Kocurek, G. Lee, S. Leshin, L. A. Leveille, R. Limonadi, D. Maki, J. Mccloskey, S. Meyer, M. Minitti, M. Newsom, H. Oehler, D. Okon, A. Palucis, M. Parker, T. Rowland, S. Schmidt, M. Squyres, S. Steele, A. Stolper, E. Summons, R. Treiman, A. Williams, R. Yingst, A. Fabre, C. |
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A Habitable Fluvio-Lacustrine Environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars |
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A Habitable Fluvio-Lacustrine Environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars |
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A Habitable Fluvio-Lacustrine Environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars |
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ftunivstetienne:oai:HAL:hal-01293840v1 2024-09-15T18:41:02+00:00 A Habitable Fluvio-Lacustrine Environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars Grotzinger, J. P. Sumner, D. Y. Kah, L. C. Stack, K. Gupta, S. Edgar, L. Rubin, D. Lewis, K. Schieber, J. Mangold, N. Milliken, R. Conrad, P. G. Desmarais, D. Farmer, J. Siebach, K. Calef, F. Hurowitz, J. Mclennan, S. M. Ming, D. Vaniman, D. Crisp, J. Vasavada, A. Edgett, K. S. Malin, M. Blake, D. Gellert, R. Mahaffy, P. Wiens, R. C. Maurice, S. Grant, J. A. Wilson, Shelby Anderson, R. C. Beegle, L. Arvidson, R. Hallet, B. Sletten, R. S. Rice, M. Bell, J. Griffes, J. Ehlmann, B. Anderson, R. B. Bristow, T. F. Dietrich, W. E. Dromart, G. Eigenbrode, J. Fraeman, A. Hardgrove, C. Herkenhoff, K. Jandura, L. Kocurek, G. Lee, S. Leshin, L. A. Leveille, R. Limonadi, D. Maki, J. Mccloskey, S. Meyer, M. Minitti, M. Newsom, H. Oehler, D. Okon, A. Palucis, M. Parker, T. Rowland, S. Schmidt, M. Squyres, S. Steele, A. Stolper, E. Summons, R. Treiman, A. Williams, R. Yingst, A. Fabre, C. Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences Pasadena California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) Department of Earth and Planetary Science UC Berkeley (EPS) University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley) University of California (UC)-University of California (UC) The University of Tennessee Knoxville Department of Earth Science and Technology Imperial College London Imperial College London ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration (SESE) Arizona State University Tempe (ASU) US Geological Survey Santa Cruz United States Geological Survey Reston (USGS) Princeton University Department of Geological Sciences Bloomington Indiana University Bloomington Indiana University System-Indiana University System Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique UMR 6112 (LPG) Université d'Angers (UA)-Université de Nantes - UFR des Sciences et des Techniques (UN UFR ST) Université de Nantes (UN)-Université de Nantes (UN)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Department of Geological Sciences Providence Brown University NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) NASA Ames Research Center (ARC) Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH) Department of Geosciences Stony Brook Stony Brook University SUNY (SBU) State University of New York (SUNY)-State University of New York (SUNY) State University of New York (SUNY) NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC) NASA Planetary Science Institute Tucson (PSI) Department of Physics Guelph University of Guelph Space Remote Sensing Group (ISR-2) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP) Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3) Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3) Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Center for Earth and Planetary Studies Washington (CEPS) Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum Smithsonian Institution-Smithsonian Institution Department of Earth and Space Sciences Seattle University of Washington Seattle Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE) École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon)-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL) Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne (UJM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Department of Geological Sciences Austin 2014-01 https://hal.science/hal-01293840 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1242777 en eng HAL CCSD American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1126/science.1242777 hal-01293840 https://hal.science/hal-01293840 doi:10.1126/science.1242777 ISSN: 0036-8075 EISSN: 1095-9203 Science https://hal.science/hal-01293840 Science, 2014, 343 (6169), ⟨10.1126/science.1242777⟩ [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2014 ftunivstetienne https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1242777 2024-08-05T23:36:24Z International audience The Curiosity rover discovered fine-grained sedimentary rocks, which are inferred to represent an ancient lake and preserve evidence of an environment that would have been suited to support a martian biosphere founded on chemolithoautotrophy. This aqueous environment was characterized by neutral pH, low salinity, and variable redox states of both iron and sulfur species. Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen, and phosphorus were measured directly as key biogenic elements; by inference, phosphorus is assumed to have been available. The environment probably had a minimum duration of hundreds to tens of thousands of years. These results highlight the biological viability of fluvial-lacustrine environments in the post-Noachian history of Mars. Article in Journal/Newspaper Yellowknife Université Jean Monnet – Saint-Etienne: HAL Science 343 6169 |