Physics
Scientific paper
Apr 1985
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1985pggp.rept..397g&link_type=abstract
In NASA, Washington Repts. of Planetary Geol. and Geophys. Program, 1984 p 397 (SEE N85-23474 13-91)
Physics
Mars Surface, Minerals, Planetary Composition, Remote Sensing, Spectral Reflectance, Zeolites, Absorption Spectra, Clays, Infrared Spectra, Water
Scientific paper
The Martian surface composition measured by Viking can be represented by several combinations of minerals incorporating major fractions of zeolites known to occur in altered mafic rocks and polar soils on Earth. The abundant occurrence of zeolites on Mars is consistent with what is known about both the physical and chemical environment of that planet. The laboratory reflectance spectra (0.65 to 2.55 microns) of a number of relatively pure zeolite minerals and some naturally occurring zeolite-clay soils were measured. All of the spectra measured are dominated by strong absorption near 1.4 and 1.9 microns and a steep reflectance drop longward of about 2.2 microns, all of which are due to abundant H2O. Weaker water overtone bands are also apparent, and in most cases there is spectral evidence for minor Fe(3+). In these features the zeolite spectra are similar to spectra of smectite clays which have abundant interlayer water. The most diagnostic difference between clay and zeolite spectra is the total absence in the zeolites of the weak structural OH absorption.
Gaffney Edward S.
Kunkle T. D.
Singer Robert B.
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