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  • Newsom, Horton E.Institute of Meteoritics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA (author)

Gale crater and impact processes – Curiosity’s first 364 Sols on Mars

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  • Elsevier BV,2015
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  • LIBRIS-ID:oai:DiVA.org:ltu-3468
  • https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-3468URI
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2014.10.013DOI

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  • Summary in:English

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  • Godkänd; 2015; 20150330 (ninhul)
  • Impact processes at all scales have been involved in the formation and subsequent evolution of Gale crater. Small impact craters in the vicinity of the Curiosity MSL landing site and rover traverse during the 364 Sols after landing have been studied both from orbit and the surface. Evidence for the effect of impacts on basement outcrops may include loose blocks of sandstone and conglomerate, and disrupted (fractured) sedimentary layers, which are not obviously displaced by erosion. Impact ejecta blankets are likely to be present, but in the absence of distinct glass or impact melt phases are difficult to distinguish from sedimentary/volcaniclastic breccia and conglomerate deposits. The occurrence of individual blocks with diverse petrological characteristics, including igneous textures, have been identified across the surface of Bradbury Rise, and some of these blocks may represent distal ejecta from larger craters in the vicinity of Gale. Distal ejecta may also occur in the form of impact spherules identified in the sediments and drift material. Possible examples of impactites in the form of shatter cones, shocked rocks, and ropy textured fragments of materials that may have been molten have been observed, but cannot be uniquely confirmed. Modification by aeolian processes of craters smaller than 40 m in diameter observed in this study, are indicated by erosion of crater rims, and infill of craters with aeolian and airfall dust deposits. Estimates for resurfacing suggest that craters less than 15 m in diameter may represent steady state between production and destruction. The smallest candidate impact crater observed is ∼0.6 m in diameter. The observed crater record and other data are consistent with a resurfacing rate of the order of 10 mm/Myr; considerably greater than the rate from impact cratering alone, but remarkably lower than terrestrial erosion rates.

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  • Mangold, NicolasLPGN, CNRS, UMR 6112, Université Nantes, Nantes, France (author)
  • Kah, Linda C.Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA (author)
  • Williams, Joshua M.Institute of Meteoritics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA (author)
  • Arvidson, Ray E.Washington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO, USA (author)
  • Stein, NathanWashington University in Saint Louis, Saint Louis, MO, USA (author)
  • Ollila, Ann M.Institute of Meteoritics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA (author)
  • Bridges, John C.Space Research Centre, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK (author)
  • Schwenzer, Susanne P.Department of Physical Science, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA, UK (author)
  • King, Penelope L.Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia; University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada (author)
  • Grant, John A.Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560, USA (author)
  • Pinet, PatrickUniversité Paul Sabatier, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), Toulouse, France (author)
  • Bridges, Nathan T.Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723, USA (author)
  • Calef III, FredJet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA (author)
  • Wiens, Roger C.Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA (author)
  • Spray, John G.Planetary and Space Science Centre, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB E3B 5A3, Canada (author)
  • Vaniman, David T.Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ 85719, USA (author)
  • Elston, Wolf E.Institute of Meteoritics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA (author)
  • Berger, Jeff A.University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada (author)
  • Garvin, James B.NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA (author)
  • Palucis, Marisa C.Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA (author)
  • Martin-Torres, JavierLuleå tekniska universitet,Rymdteknik,MSL Science Team(Swepub:ltu)javmar(author)
  • Institute of Meteoritics, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USALPGN, CNRS, UMR 6112, Université Nantes, Nantes, France (creator_code:org_t)

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