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Dark‐Toned Halite‐Enriched Veins Above the Marker Band Record a Drying Environment in Gale Crater Open

Allyson R. Trussell, James F. Bell, W. H. Farrand, Emily B. Hughes, A. M. Eng , et al. · 2025

The Martian surface preserves evidence of a global climate transition from wetter to drier conditions, but the nature of the fluids involved in this evolution remains poorly constrained. In Gale crater, the clay‐sulfate transition and pres…

A Burial History of the Sedimentary Succession Preserved in Aeolis Mons, as Recorded by Fracture Networks at Maria Gordon Notch, Gale Crater, Mars Open

Steven G. Banham, John Cosgrove, Gerhard Paar, Sanjeev Gupta, M. N. Hughes , et al. · 2025

Fractures in sedimentary rocks preserved within Gale crater record the deformational and burial history of the sediment infill. Fracture geometries and morphology can be used to time other geologic events, such as: compaction, diagenesis, …

Dark-Toned Halite-Enriched Veins Above the Marker Band Record a Drying Environment in Gale Crater Open

Allyson R. Trussell, J. F. Bell, W. H. Farrand, Emmy B. Hughes, A. M. Eng , et al. · 2025

Paleo‐Scours Within the Layered Sulfate‐Bearing Unit at Gale Crater, Mars: Evidence for Intense Wind Erosion Open

Amelie L. Roberts, Sanjeev Gupta, Steven G. Banham, Aster Cowart, Lauren Edgar , et al. · 2025

The surface of modern Mars is largely shaped by wind, but the influence of past wind activity is less well constrained. Sedimentary rocks exposed in the lower foothills of Aeolis Mons, the central mound within Gale crater, record a transit…

Hypotheses for the water and metal fluxes to the rippled Amapari Marker Band, Gale Crater, Mars Open

Edwin S. Kite, P. J. Gasda, Christopher Tino, C. M. Weitz, L. Thompson , et al. · 2025

Prow & co.: inside the fluvial lenses of Gale's layered sulfate unit Open

Gwénaël Caravaca, Sanjeev Gupta, W. Rapin, Jüergen Schieber, L. Le Deit , et al. · 2025

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DEPOSITIONAL ENVIRONMENT AND PALEOCLIMATE IMPLICATIONS OF THE AMAPARI MARKER BAND WAVE RIPPLES Open

Claire A. Mondro, J. P. Grotzinger, Christopher M. Fedo, Michael P. Lamb, Sanjeev Gupta , et al. · 2025

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Depositional Environment of the Amapari Marker Band: Rising Water Levels Formed Kilometer‐Scale Lake in Gale Crater, Mars Open

Claire A. Mondro, J. Grotzinger, Christopher M. Fedo, Michael P. Lamb, Sanjeev Gupta , et al. · 2025

The Amapari Marker Band (AMB) is a layer within the Mount Sharp stratigraphy that has been mapped around the Gale crater in orbital images and was recently investigated up close by the Curiosity rover. Symmetric wave ripple marks within th…

Wave ripples formed in ancient, ice-free lakes in Gale crater, Mars Open

Claire A. Mondro, Christopher M. Fedo, J. P. Grotzinger, Michael P. Lamb, Sanjeev Gupta , et al. · 2025

Symmetrical wave ripples identified with NASA’s Curiosity rover in ancient lake deposits at Gale crater provide a key paleoclimate constraint for early Mars: At the time of ripple formation, climate conditions must have supported ice-free …

Depositional processes and environments of the Layered Sulfate-bearing unit, Gale crater, Mars Open

Amelie L. Roberts, Sanjeev Gupta, Aster Cowart, Lauren Edgar, W. E. Dietrich , et al. · 2024

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The Upper Gediz Vallis Ridge at Gale Crater: Sedimentary Rock Clasts Transported by a Late-Stage Debris Flow on Mars? Open

J. M. Davis, W. E. Dietrich, Claire A. Mondro, Sharon A. Wilson, Gwénaël Caravaca , et al. · 2024

The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover continues to ascend Aeolis Mons in Gale crater, Mars, with the goal of characterising formerly habitable palaeoenvironments. Since September 2022, Curiosity has been traversing Gediz Vallis…

THE AMAPARI MARKER BAND, GALE CRATER, MARS: METAL ENRICHMENTS AND POTENTIAL MECHANISMS OF FORMATION Open

P. J. Gasda, Edwin S. Kite, L. M. Thompson, Claire A. Mondro, W. E. Dietrich , et al. · 2024

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Astrobiology eXploration at Enceladus (AXE): A New Frontiers Mission Concept Study Open

Kenneth Marshall Seaton, S. Gyalay, Gaia Stucky de Quay, Ethan R. Burnett, C. Adeene Denton , et al. · 2023

The Saturnian moon Enceladus presents a unique opportunity to sample the contents of a subsurface liquid water ocean in situ via the continuous plume formed over its south polar terrain using a multi-flyby mission architecture. Previous an…

Surface grain size of alluvial fans on Mars from thermal inertia, as an indicator of depositional style Open

Claire A. Mondro, J. E. Moersch, C. Hardgrove · 2023

The depositional history of alluvial fans on Mars provides insight into the climatic conditions during the time of fan formation in the late Hesperian to early Amazonian.However, traditional stratigraphic analysis of the alluvial fan depos…

SupplementaryMaterial_MarsAlluvialFan_Thermal_Inertia_summary Open

Claire A. Mondro · 2023

This table functions as Supplementary Material for the manuscript cited below. Please see the text of the preprint manuscript for more detail on data collection, results, and discussion.Mondro, C.A, J.E. Moersch, C. Hardgrove, (2023, prepr…

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