Pretty Green Mineral--Pretty Dry Mars?

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Nov 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003psrd.repte..78m&link_type=abstract

Planetary Science Research Discoveries

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Mars, Martian, Nili Fossae, Tes, Olivine, Silicate Mineral

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Spectra of the Martian surface from the Mars Global Surveyor Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) have been matched with laboratory spectra of olivine. Todd Hoefen and Roger Clark (U. S. Geological Survey, Denver) and colleagues at Arizona State University and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center reported a 30,000-square-kilometer area of olivine-bearing rock in the Nili Fossae region, northeast of Syrtis Major. Olivine is the common name for a suite of iron-magnesium silicate minerals known to crystallize first from a magma and to weather first in the presence of water into clays or iron oxides. The occurrence of olivine on the surface of Mars and its susceptibility to chemical weathering has geochemists busy investigating how long it has been there and what that means about climate history.

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