A Habitable Fluvio-Lacustrine Environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars

By John P. Grotzinger, D. Sumner, Linda C. Kah, K. Stack, S. Gupta, L. Edgar, D. Rubin, K. Lewis, J. Schieber, Nicolas Mangold and 63 more. Science, 2014

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Sustainable life support on Mars – the potential roles of cyanobacteria (2015, background): “In particular, the latter two have allowed detailed mineral compositions to be deduced at multiple sites in the Endeavour crater (Arvidson et al. 2014) and Gale crater (Grotzinger et al. 2014; McLennan et al. 2014; Ming et al. 2014; Vaniman et al. 2014).”
The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover Mastcam instruments: Preflight and in‐flight calibration, validation, and data archiving (2017, methodology): “For example, lossless Mastcam multispectral images from the sol 281 drill hole imaging campaign in “Yellowknife Bay” [Grotzinger et al., 2014] were recompressed after downlink using a copy of the onboard JPEG compression algorithm and converted to compressed images at JPEG quality factors of 85 and…”
Deposition, exhumation, and paleoclimate of an ancient lake deposit, Gale crater, Mars (2015, background): “Rocks of the Yellowknife Bay formation are composed dominantly of lacustrine mudstone and fluvial sandstone, with minor eolian sandstone (5, 12).”
Heterogeneous distribution of H2O in the Martian interior: Implications for the abundance of H2O in depleted and enriched mantle sources (2016, background): “…Baker 2001; Squyres et al. 2004; Haskin et al. 2005; McSween 2006; McEwen et al. 2007; Mustard et al. 2008; Smith et al. 2009; Ehlmann et al. 2011; Grotzinger et al. 2014), but the timing and extent to which this water participated in a global hydrologic cycle is still open to debate (Greeley…”
Mineralogy of the Martian Surface (2014, background): “Curiosity’s first year of exploration yielded discovery of Fe/Mg smectites in fine-grained sedimentary rocks within Yellowknife Bay, cut by veins of diagenetic calcium sulfates (Grotzinger et al. 2014, Vaniman et al. 2014).”
The Climate of Early Mars (2016, background): “Mars provides us a glimpse of conditions during the earliest stages of the Solar System on a body that had an atmosphere, at least episodic surface liquid water, and in some locales, surface chemistry conducive to the survival of microbial life (e.g., Grotzinger et al. 2014).”
The pH of Enceladus’ ocean (2015, background): “McSween H. Y., et al. (2006) Characterization and petrologic interpretation of olivine-rich basalts at Gusev Crater, Mars.”
Geologic Constraints on Early Mars Climate (2018, background): “Thus, data for Early Mars – the only geologic record that can give an independent test of Earth-derived models of planetary habitability (Ehlmann et al. 2016) – shows that those models do not work (Grotzinger et al. 2014, Dietrich et al. 2017, Vasavada 2017, Haberle et al. 2017).”
Petrology on Mars (2015, background): “The early Hesperian Yellowknife Bay formation (Grotzinger et al. 2014) is a coarsening-upward succession of mudstone to sandstone (Figs.”
Mineralogy of a Mudstone at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars (2014, methodology): “Late Noachian/Early Hesperian or younger age indicates that clay mineral formation on Mars extended beyond Noachian time.”
Mars 2020 Mission Overview (2020, background): “In the latter case, the effects of the nearby huge slopes of Isidis Basin are expected to dominate over the mild Jezero crater topography, by contrast with strong control exerted by local slopes in the deeper Gale crater where Curiosity sits.”