Monturaqui Crater (Atacama Desert, Chile) as a Mars Analog: Exploring the Impact Spherule Hypothesis for Meridiani

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Mar 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010lpi....41.2236p&link_type=abstract

41st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, held March 1-5, 2010 in The Woodlands, Texas. LPI Contribution No. 1533, p.2236

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Monturaqui is a young terrestrial impact in the Atacama Desert. The
impact affected volcanic rocks and created a vesicular impactite that
contains iron oxide spherules, representing a potential analog for
"blueberries" in Meridiani Planum, Mars.

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