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DOI | 10.1029/2018GL081402 |
Crater Statistics on the Dark-Toned, Mafic Floor Unit in Jezero Crater, Mars | |
Shahrzad, Stephanie1; Kinch, Kjartan M.2; Goudge, Timothy A.3; Fassett, Caleb I.4; Needham, Debra H.4; Quantin-Nataf, Cathy5; Knudsen, Cecillie P.2 | |
2019-03-16 | |
发表期刊 | GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
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ISSN | 0094-8276 |
EISSN | 1944-8007 |
出版年 | 2019 |
卷号 | 46期号:5页码:2408-2416 |
文章类型 | Article |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | Denmark; USA; France |
英文摘要 | Jezero crater is a similar to 45-km impact crater on the margin of Isidis basin on Mars. Jezero is the landing site for NASA's Mars 2020 rover mission. The crater hosts a paleolake, and fluvio-lacustrine deposits formed in this lake remain accessible to exploration. A dark-toned deposit on the crater floor overlies light-toned carbonate-bearing deposits and has been interpreted as a lava flow. We determined the average thickness of this deposit at the margins to be similar to 13.00.8 m. We analyzed the statistics of impact craters superposed on this deposit and estimated its model age as 2.60.5Ga in the Hartmann system, placing it most likely in the Early Amazonian. The error estimate here includes an estimate of the uncertainty associated with the crater counts. Acquisition, caching, and eventual return of a sample from this unit could provide an important calibration point for Mars crater chronology. Plain Language Summary Jezero crater is a large impact crater on Mars with a diameter of about 45 km. In the Martian deep past this crater hosted a long-lived lake. On 19 November NASA announced that Jezero crater will be the landing site for the coming Mars 2020 mission. On top of sediments on the central crater floor is a distinctive deposit of dark rocks that possibly originated as a lava flow after the lake had dried out. We studied the statistics of small impact craters on this dark deposit. Such impact crater statistic is widely used as a tool for dating Martian terrains. We report a derived model age of 2.60.2 Ga for these rocks. One central goal of the Mars 2020 mission is to select and store a cache of rock samples that will be returned to Earth by a later mission for study in terrestrial laboratories. If this dark deposit is indeed lava, a sample could be dated in terrestrial laboratories. Together with our crater statistics reported here, this could provide a crucial tie-point for recalibration of the crater count dating system for Mars, which now relies on extrapolation from samples collected on the Moon. |
英文关键词 | Jezero crater crater counting Mars 2020 Mars age |
领域 | 气候变化 |
收录类别 | SCI-E |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000462612900010 |
WOS关键词 | IMPACT BASINS ; SYSTEM |
WOS类目 | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
WOS研究方向 | Geology |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.173/C666/handle/2XK7JSWQ/181600 |
专题 | 气候变化 |
作者单位 | 1.Univ Copenhagen, Dept Geosci & Nat Resource Management, Copenhagen, Denmark; 2.Univ Copenhagen, Niels Bohr Inst, Copenhagen, Denmark; 3.Univ Texas Austin, Jackson Sch Geosci, Austin, TX 78712 USA; 4.NASA, Marshall Space Flight Ctr, Huntsville, AL USA; 5.Univ Claude Bernard, Univ Lyon, Lab Geol Lyon, Terre,Planetes,Environm, Villeurbanne, France |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Shahrzad, Stephanie,Kinch, Kjartan M.,Goudge, Timothy A.,et al. Crater Statistics on the Dark-Toned, Mafic Floor Unit in Jezero Crater, Mars[J]. GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,2019,46(5):2408-2416. |
APA | Shahrzad, Stephanie.,Kinch, Kjartan M..,Goudge, Timothy A..,Fassett, Caleb I..,Needham, Debra H..,...&Knudsen, Cecillie P..(2019).Crater Statistics on the Dark-Toned, Mafic Floor Unit in Jezero Crater, Mars.GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS,46(5),2408-2416. |
MLA | Shahrzad, Stephanie,et al."Crater Statistics on the Dark-Toned, Mafic Floor Unit in Jezero Crater, Mars".GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS 46.5(2019):2408-2416. |
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