Removal of water from Mars' hydrosphere by serpentinization

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Oct 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011epsc.conf..360c&link_type=abstract

EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.360

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One of the most plausible mechanisms proposed so far to explain the presence of methane in Mars' atmosphere is serpentinization of ultramafic rocks from crustal carbon [1]. This process, to be significant, requires ultramafic rocks to be present in Martian crust. Pyroxene is the most widely distributed mineral detected from the Martian orbit, covering large zones of the southern hemisphere old terrains [2]. Global maps of olivine performed by the TES spectrometer of Mars Global Surveyor show significant amounts of olivine-rich rocks at the surface of the planet [3]. Serpentine itself has been recently observed by CRISM on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter in and around the Nili Fossae region [4], associated with alteration minerals, proving that it has been formed at some places at the surface of Mars. Serpentinization seems therefore a plausible mechanism of CH4 synthesis in the Martian crust.

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