Evidence for marine sedimentary rocks in Utopia Planitia: zhurong rover observations
| العنوان: | Evidence for marine sedimentary rocks in Utopia Planitia: zhurong rover observations |
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| المؤلفون: | Long Xiao, Jun Huang, Timothy Kusky, James W Head, Jiannan Zhao, Jiang Wang, Le Wang, Wenchao Yu, Yutong Shi, Bo Wu, Yuqi Qian, Qian Huang, Xiao Xiao |
| المصدر: | National Science Review. |
| بيانات النشر: | Oxford University Press (OUP), 2023. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Multidisciplinary |
| الوصف: | Decades of research using remotely-sensed data have extracted evidence for the presence of an ocean in the northern lowlands of Mars in the Hesperian (∼3.3 Ga), but these claims have remained controversial due to the lack of in situ analysis of the associated geologic unit, the Vastitas Borealis Formation (VBF). The Tianwen-1/Zhurong rover was targeted to land within the VBF near its southern margin and has traversed almost 2 km southward toward the interpreted shoreline. We report here on the first in situ analysis of the VBF that reveals sedimentary structures and features in surface rocks that suggest that the VBF was deposited in a marine environment, providing direct support for the existence of an ancient (Hesperian) ocean on Mars. |
| تدمد: | 2053-714X 2095-5138 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::39193691d07c8fc0b533f51d9e95044e https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwad137 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi...........39193691d07c8fc0b533f51d9e95044e |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 2053714X 20955138 |
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