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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS
卷 126, 期 11, 页码 -出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2021JE006898
关键词
Jezero; carbonate; Mars; groundwater; lacustrine; habitability
资金
- NASA Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Canadian Space Agency
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- Canada Foundation for Innovation
- Manitoba Research Innovation Fund
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration [80NM0018D0004]
Carbonate minerals have been detected in the Jezero crater and the Nili Fossae region with similar properties and are likely to have a shared origin. The presence of both Mg- and Fe-rich carbonates in the region is consistent with olivine carbonation, and hydrothermal alteration is suggested as the most likely formation mechanism.
Carbonate minerals have been detected in Jezero crater, an ancient lake basin that is the landing site of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, and within the regional olivine-bearing (ROB) unit in the Nili Fossae region surrounding this crater. It has been suggested that some carbonates in the margin fractured unit, a rock unit within Jezero crater, formed in a fluviolacustrine environment, which would be conducive to preservation of biosignatures from paleolake-inhabiting lifeforms. Here, we show that carbonate-bearing rocks within and outside of Jezero crater have the same range of visible-to-near-infrared carbonate absorption strengths, carbonate absorption band positions, thermal inertias, and morphologies. Thicknesses of exposed carbonate-bearing rock cross-sections in Jezero crater are similar to 75-90 m thicker than typical ROB unit cross-sections in the Nili Fossae region, but have similar thicknesses to ROB unit exposures in Libya Montes. These similarities in carbonate properties within and outside of Jezero crater is consistent with a shared origin for all of the carbonates in the Nili Fossae region. Carbonate absorption minima positions indicate that both Mg- and more Fe-rich carbonates are present in the Nili Fossae region, consistent with the expected products of olivine carbonation. These estimated carbonate chemistries are similar to those in martian meteorites and the Comanche carbonates investigated by the Spirit rover in Columbia Hills. Our results indicate that hydrothermal alteration is the most likely formation mechanism for non-deltaic carbonates within and outside of Jezero crater.
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