Paper Alert! New Publication from our PI and the international collaborators on Martian Geochemistry in Nature Communications
CRISM mineral mapping and sulfate morphologies from Aram Chaos. Image Credit: Nature Communications (Nat Commun) ISSN 2041-1723 (online).
Congratulations to our PI Merve on her new Mars paper!
We are thrilled to announce that our PI’s and her international collaborators’ latest research article, “Characterization of ferric hydroxysulfate on Mars and implications of the geochemical environment supporting its formation”, has been published in the Nature Communications! 🌟
Our PI Merve expressed that - “ I’m grateful for the opportunity to work alongside such a dedicated and interdisciplinary team from NASA and the other partners in Europe and USA, and proud of what we accomplished together. We found a new mineral that can only exist under Mars conditions. It is very important finding to assess the active surface processes and past habitability of Mars. Congratulations to all co-authors, and thank you to NASA, Swedish Research Council Starting Grant, and Europlanet TA program for supporting this research!”
This study demonstrates that thermal energy that originating from volcanic activity near the Juventae Plateau and subsurface geothermal heating beneath Aram Chaos can convert widespread hydrated sulfates into ferric hydroxysulfate. These findings indicate that certain regions of Mars may have experienced chemical and thermal transformations more recently than previously thought, shedding new light on the planet’s active surface processes and its potential for past habitability.
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