High-pressure Neutron Powder Diffraction and Inelastic Neutron Scattering Studies on the Mineral Jarosite KFe3(SO4)2(OH)6

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The mineral jarosite KFe3(SO4)2(OH)6 has been detected in rocks at the Meridiani Planum region of Mars [1 and cited therein]. Jarosite is typically formed in aqueous environments at acidic pH. It decomposes to ferric oxohyroxides in humid climate. This gives rise to the question under which conditions jarosite was formed on Mars and what it can tell us about the climatic cycles and the former presence of water on Mars. We are looking at the phases of jarosite at elevated temperature and pressure and were able to show the stability of jarosite up to 6 GPa at room temperature and up to 3 GPa at 300 ^oC using neutron powder diffraction. Furthermore, we used inelastic incoherent neutron scattering to look at the vibrational modes of the hydroxyl groups in jarosite at various temperatures between 10K and 200K. [1] A. Banin, Science 309 (2005) 888

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