Computer Science
Scientific paper
Mar 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993lpi....24..525g&link_type=abstract
In Lunar and Planetary Inst., Twenty-Fourth Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. Part 2: G-M p 525-526 (SEE N94-16173 03-91)
Computer Science
Canyons, Iron Oxides, Mars (Planet), Mars Surface, Mineral Deposits, Mineralogy, Photographs, Planetary Composition, Planetary Geology, Plateaus, Viking Spacecraft, Water, Cliffs, Ground Water, Reflectance, Sediments, Seepage, Strata, Viking Mars Program
Scientific paper
Spectral evidence from Viking and Phobos orbiting spacecraft suggests the local development of crystalline ferric oxides in a small region within Mars' equatorial Valles Marineris canyon system. This is the same area noted for its anomalous coloration in Viking Orbiter image 583 A by McEwen. The unique hue of the region in Viking color data is due to a reduced green filter reflectance, relative to violet and red, in comparison to surrounding materials of similar albedo or average reflectance. For this reason, the region does not appear spectrally distinctive in later Survey Mission images which were acquired without the green filter. In high resolution, the spectral unit can be seen to correspond to two 20 km long depressions on the margins of Candor Mensa, a heavily eroded plateau-forming deposit on the canyon floor. Laminae are conspicuous in several places on the plateau, particularly where 15 to 20 cycles of alternating bright and dark laminae are exposed at approximately 200 meter vertical intervals. Laminae are also visible on the steep, vertically fluted cliffs to the south of this depression. Concentric laminae indicate a basis in the depression on the southeastern margin of Candor Mensa at the location of the less pronounced hue anomaly. A distinct lineation at the base of the scarp at the western end of the canyon transects mottled canyon floor deposits believed to be among the youngest in the Valles marineris. Water is implicated in the formation of the iron oxides, since the steep surfaces of layered sediments elsewhere on Candor Mensa show no evidence of unusual coloration despite the fact that these materials were deposited concurrently with the strata exposed in the depressions. This suggests that the mineralization is secondary in nature and developed locally in association with the depressions, which could have ponded surface runoff or groundwater seepage.
Geissler Paul Eric
Komatsu Goro
Singer Robert B.
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