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Mars Exploration Rover Field Observations of Impact Craters at Gusev Crater and Meridiani Planum and Implications for Climate Change

Author
Golombek, M.
Published
[2005].
Physical Description
1 electronic document
Additional Creators
Crumpler, L. S. and Grant, J. A.
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Summary
The Mars Exploration Rovers have provided a field geologist's perspective of impact craters in various states of degradation along their traverses at Gusev crater and Meridiani Planum. This abstract will describe the craters observed and changes to the craters that constrain the erosion rates and the climate [l]. Changes to craters on the plains of Gusev argue for a dry and desiccating environment since the Late Hesperian in contrast to the wet and likely warm environment in the Late Noachian at Meridiani in which the sulfate evaporites were deposited in salt-water playas or sabkhas.
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NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) Collection.
Note
Document ID: 20050201861.
Workshop on The Role of Volatile and Atmospheres on Martian Impact Craters; 40-41; LPI-Contrib-1273.
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