Aqueous alteration processes in Jezero crater, Mars—implications for organic geochemistry
Abstract
The Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, Mars, in February 2021. We used the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) instrument to perform deep-ultraviolet Raman and fluorescence spectroscopy of three rocks within the crater. We identify evidence for two distinct ancient aqueous environments at different times. Reactions with liquid water formed carbonates in an olivine-rich igneous rock. A sulfate-perchlorate mixture is present in the rocks, which probably formed by later modifications of the rocks by brine. Fluorescence signatures consistent with aromatic organic compounds occur throughout these rocks and are preserved in minerals related to both aqueous environments.
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PIXL and SHERLOC also detected carbonates in different targets along the rover traverse.
“Mars2020s proximity science instruments PIXL and SHERLOC (Allwood etal.,2020; Bhartia etal.,2021) also detected carbonates in different target.along the rover traverse (Razzell Hollis etal.,2022; E. L. Scheller et al., 2022; Tice et al., 2022).”
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- Authors
- Scheller, E. L., Razzell Hollis, J., Cardarelli, E. L., Steele, A., Beegle, L. W., Bhartia, R., Conrad, P., Uckert, K., Sharma, S., Ehlmann, B. L., Abbey, W. J., Asher, S. A., Benison, K. C., Berger, E. L., Beyssac, O., Bleefeld, B. L., Bosak, T., Brown, A. J., Burton, A. S., Bykov, S. V., Cloutis, E., Fairén, A. G., DeFlores, L., Farley, K. A., Fey, D. M., Fornaro, T., Fox, A. C., Fries, M., Hickman-Lewis, K., Hug, W. F., Huggett, J. E., Imbeah, S., Jakubek, R. S., Kah, L. C., Kelemen, P., Kennedy, M. R., Kizovski, T., Lee, C., Liu, Y., Mandon, L., McCubbin, F. M., Moore, K. R., Nixon, B. E., Núñez, J. I., Rodriguez Sanchez-Vahamonde, C., Roppel, R. D., Schulte, M., Sephton, M. A., Sharma, S. K., Siljeström, S., Shkolyar, S., Shuster, D. L., Simon, J. I., Smith, R. J., Stack, K. M., Steadman, K., Weiss, B. P., Werynski, A., Williams, A. J., Wiens, R. C., Williford, K. H., Winchell, K., Wogsland, B., Yanchilina, A., Yingling, R., & Zorzano, M.-P.
- Affiliations
- California Institute of Technology (US)
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA.
- Carnegie Institution for Science (US)
- Photon Systems (United States) (US)
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (US)
- University of Pittsburgh (US)
- West Virginia University (US)
- Texas State University (US)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (FR)
- Malin Space Science Systems (United States) (US)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
- Plancus Research, Severna Park, MD, USA.
- Johnson Space Center (US)
- The University of Winnipeg (CA)
- Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (ES)
- Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory (IT)
- Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, London, UK.
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (US)
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (US)
- Brock University (CA)
- Universities Space Research Association (US)
- Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (US)
- Malin Space Science Systems, San Diego, CA, USA.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (US)
- Imperial College London (GB)
- Research Institutes of Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden.
- Goddard Space Flight Center (US)
- University of California, Berkeley (US)
- Stony Brook University (US)
- University of Florida (US)
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (US)
- Impossible Sensing, St. Louis, MO, USA.
- Centro de Astrobiología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas–Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial, Madrid, Spain.
- Corresponding author
- Scheller, Eva L.
- ORCID
- Scheller, Eva L.
- Cardarelli, Emily L.
- Steele, Andrew
- Beegle, Luther W.
- Bhartia, Rohit
- Conrad, Pamela
- Uckert, Kyle
- Sharma, Sunanda
- Ehlmann, Bethany L.
- Abbey, William J.
- Asher, Sanford A.
- Benison, Kathleen C.
- Berger, Eve L.
- Beyssac, Olivier
- Bosak, Tanja
- Brown, Adrian J.
- Burton, Aaron S.
- Bykov, Sergei V.
- Cloutis, Ed
- Fairén, Alberto G.
- Farley, Kenneth A.
- Fey, Deidra M.
- Fornaro, Teresa
- Fox, Allison C.
- Fries, Marc
- Hickman-Lewis, Keyron
- Hug, William F.
- Huggett, Joshua E.
- Imbeah, Samara
- Jakubek, Ryan S.
- Kah, Linda C.
- Kelemen, Peter
- Kennedy, Megan R.
- Kizovski, Tanya
- Lee, Carina
- Liu, Yang
- Mandon, Lucia
- McCubbin, Francis M.
- Moore, Kelsey R.
- Nixon, Brian E.
- Núñez, Jorge I.
- Roppel, Ryan D.
- Schulte, Mitchell
- Sephton, Mark A.
- Sharma, Shiv K.
- Siljeström, Sandra
- Shkolyar, Svetlana
- Shuster, David L.
- Simon, Justin I.
- Smith, Rebecca J.
- Stack, Kathryn M.
- Steadman, Kim
- Weiss, Benjamin P.
- Werynski, Alyssa
- Williams, Amy J.
- Wiens, Roger C.
- Williford, Kenneth H.
- Wogsland, Brittan
- Yanchilina, Anastasia
- Yingling, Rachel
- Zorzano, Maria-Paz
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2022-12-09
- Volume
- 378
- Issue
- 6624
- Pages
- 1105-1110
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W4309822001
- Cited by
- 176
- References
- 5
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- 2026: 27 · 2025: 58 · 2024: 55 · 2023: 30 · 2022: 6
- FWCI
- 14.90
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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- Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- CaltechAUTHORS (California Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion)
- Spiral (Imperial College London) (submittedVersion)
- 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 › Geochemistry and Petrology › Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
- Keywords
- Jezero Crater, aqueous alteration, carbonate formation, olivine, aromatic compounds, organic preservation, SHERLOC, Perseverance rover, Mars, ultraviolet Raman spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy
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