| Title: |
The Curiosity Rover’s Exploration of Glen Torridon, Gale crater, Mars: An Overview of the Campaign and Scientific Results |
| Authors: |
Bennett, Kristen; Fox, Valerie; Bryk, Alex; Dietrich, William; Fedo, Christopher; Edgar, Lauren; Thorpe, Michael; Williams, Amy; Wong, Gregory; Dehouck, Erwin; Mcadam, Amy; Sutter, Brad; Millan, Maeva; Banham, Steven; Bedford, Candice; Bristow, Thomas; Fraeman, Abigail; Vasavada, Ashwin; Grotzinger, John; Thompson, Lucy; O’connell-Cooper, Catherine; Gasda, Patrick; Rudolph, Amanda; Sullivan, Robert; Arvidson, Ray; Cousin, Agnes; Horgan, Briony; Stack, Kathryn; Treiman, Allan; Eigenbrode, Jennifer; Caravaca, Gwénaël |
| Contributors: |
Astrogeology Science Center Flagstaff; United States Geological Survey Reston (USGS); Department of Earth Sciences Minneapolis; University of Minnesota Twin Cities (UMN); University of Minnesota System (UMN)-University of Minnesota System (UMN); Caltech Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences; 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); Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Knoxville; The University of Tennessee Knoxville; Texas State University; NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC); NASA; Department of Geological Sciences Gainesville (UF|Geological); University of Florida Gainesville (UF); Department of Geosciences PennState; College of Earth and Mineral Sciences; Pennsylvania State University State College, PA (Penn State); Penn State System-Penn State System-Pennsylvania State University State College, PA (Penn State); Penn State System-Penn State System; Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement (LGL-TPE); École normale supérieure de Lyon (ENS de Lyon); Université de Lyon-Université de Lyon-Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL); 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); NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC); Jacobs Technology ESCG; Georgetown University Washington (GU); PLANETO - LATMOS; Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS); Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS); Department of Earth Science and Engineering Imperial College London; Imperial College London; Lunar and Planetary Institute Houston (LPI); NASA Ames Research Center (ARC); Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL); NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH); Planetary and Space Science Centre (PASSC); University of New Brunswick (UNB); Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL); Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences West Lafayette (EAPS); Purdue University West Lafayette; Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science (CCAPS); Cornell University New York; Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences St Louis; Washington University in Saint Louis (WUSTL); Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP); Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3); Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse)-Communauté d'universités et établissements de Toulouse (Comue de Toulouse)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) |
| Source: |
ISSN: 2169-9097. |
| Publisher Information: |
CCSD; Wiley-Blackwell |
| Publication Year: |
2023 |
| Collection: |
Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines: HAL-UVSQ |
| Subject Terms: |
[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; [SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences; [SDU.STU.PL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Planetology; [SDU.STU.ST]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Stratigraphy |
| Description: |
International audience ; The Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, explored the clay mineral-bearing Glen Torridon region for one martian year between January 2019 and January 2021, including a short campaign onto the Greenheugh pediment. The Glen Torridon campaign sought to characterize the geologyof the area, seek evidence of habitable environments, and document the onset of a potentially global climatic transition during the Hesperian era. Curiosity roved 5 km in total throughout Glen Torridon, from the Vera Rubin ridge to the northern margin of the Greenheugh pediment. Curiosityacquired samples from 11 drill holes during this campaign and conducted the first martian thermochemolytic-based organics detection experiment with the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite. The lowest elevations within Glen Torridon represent a continuation of lacustrine Murray formation deposits, but overlying widespread cross bedded sandstones indicate an interval of more energetic fluvial environments and prompted the definition of a new stratigraphic formation in the Mount Sharp group called the Carolyn Shoemaker formation. Glen Torridon hostsabundant phyllosilicates yet remains compositionally and mineralogically comparable to the rest of the Mount Sharp group. Glen Torridon samples have a great diversity and abundance of sulfurbearing organic molecules, which are consistent with the presence of ancient refractory organicmatter. The Glen Torridon region experienced heterogeneous diagenesis, with the most striking alteration occurring just below the Siccar Point unconformity at the Greenheugh pediment. Results from the pediment campaign show that the capping sandstone formed within the StimsonHesperian aeolian sand sea that experienced seasonal variations in wind direction. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
BIBCODE: 2023JGRE.12807185B |
| DOI: |
10.1029/2022JE007185 |
| Availability: |
https://hal.science/hal-03842401; https://hal.science/hal-03842401v2/document; https://hal.science/hal-03842401v2/file/JGR%20Planets%20-%202022%20-%20Bennett%20-%20The%20Curiosity%20Rover%20s%20Exploration%20of%20Glen%20Torridon%20%20Gale%20Crater%20%20Mars%20%20An%20Overview%20of%20the.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JE007185 |
| Rights: |
info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.50900E81 |
| Database: |
BASE |