Desert varnish: an environmental recorder for Mars

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Aug 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006a%26g....47d..34p&link_type=abstract

Astronomy & Geophysics, Volume 47, Issue 4, pp. 4.34-4.35.

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With the prospect of a Mars Sample Return mission in the next two decades, attention is now focusing on the types of samples that would be most useful for returning to Earth for laboratory analysis. Recent data on desert varnish reveal that laminated coatings on rocks from extreme environments are a passive recorder of past and present environments. Martian desert varnish would contain a chronology of the martian setting, perhaps extending back to a wetter and more biologically active period.

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