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

Grotzinger, J. P., Sumner, D. Y., Kah, L. C., Stack, K., Gupta, S., Edgar, L., Rubin, D., Lewis, K. +440 more·2014·Science
DOI 10.1126/science.1242777
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The Curiosity rover discovered fine-grained sedimentary rocks, which are inferred to represent an ancient lake and preserve evidence of an environment that would have been suited to support a martian biosphere founded on chemolithoautotrophy. This aqueous environment was characterized by neutral pH, low salinity, and variable redox states of both iron and sulfur species. Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen, and phosphorus were measured directly as key biogenic elements; by inference, phosphorus is assumed to have been available. The environment probably had a minimum duration of hundreds to tens of thousands of years. These results highlight the biological viability of fluvial-lacustrine environments in the post-Noachian history of Mars.

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  • California Institute of Technology (US)
  • University of California, Davis (US)
  • University of Tennessee at Knoxville (US)
  • Imperial College London (GB)
  • Arizona State University (US)
  • United States Geological Survey (US)
  • Princeton University (US)
  • Indiana University Bloomington (US)
  • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
  • Brown University (US)
  • Goddard Space Flight Center (US)
  • Ames Research Center (US)
  • Stony Brook University (US)
  • Johnson Space Center (US)
  • Planetary Science Institute (US)
  • Malin Space Science Systems (United States) (US)
  • University of Guelph (CA)
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory (US)
  • Smithsonian Institution (US)
  • Washington University in St. Louis (US)
  • University of Washington (US)
  • School of Earth and Space Exploration, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA.
  • University of California, Berkeley (US)
  • Université de Lyon (FR)
  • The University of Texas at Austin (US)
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (US)
  • Canadian Space Agency, St-Hubert, Quebec J3Y 8Y9, Canada.
  • NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC 20546, USA.
  • University of New Mexico (US)
  • University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (US)
  • Brock University (CA)
  • Cornell University (US)
  • Carnegie Institution for Science (US)
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
  • Lunar and Planetary Institute (US)
  • GeoRessources (FR)
  • Jet Propulsion Laboratory (US)
Corresponding author
  • Grotzinger, J. P.
  • Team, MSL Science
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Venue
Science
Publisher
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Published
2014-01-24
Volume
343
Issue
6169
Pages
1242777-1242777
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
DOI
10.1126/science.1242777
OpenAlex
W2054921843
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FWCI
39.73
Type
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Language
en
Open access
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Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Planetary Science and Exploration
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Astro and Planetary Science
  • Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
Keywords
Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars, ancient lakes, Curiosity rover, fine-grained sedimentary rocks, chemolithoautotrophy, biogenic elements, neutral pH, low salinity, phosphorus availability, habitability
MeSH terms
Carbon, Extraterrestrial Environment, Hydrogen, Hydrogen-Ion Concentration, Iron, Nitrogen, Oxidation-Reduction, Oxygen, Phosphorus, Sulfur, Water, Mars, Exobiology, Geologic Sediments, Salinity, Bays

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