The Mars 2020 rover landed at Jezero crater on February 18, 2021 [1]. Since then, the rover has traveled around the “Séítah” region [2] and has collected data from the Mastcam-Z, Supercam, PIXL and SHERLOC instruments that has led to insights into the formation of the olivine-clay-carbonate bearing rocks that were identified from orbit [3,4]. Here we discuss three questions: 1) What have we learned about the olivine-claycarbonate unit? 2) What terrestrial analogs exist for the unit? 3) Why do the rocks have a thinly layered morphology? We shall briefly mention instrumental measurements which provide important information regarding the olivine bearing rock at Seitah. Note: Extended abstract included on attachment.
A Komatiite Succession as an Analog for the Olivine Bearing Rocks at Jezero
53rd Lunar and Planetary Science Conference (LPSC) ; 2022 ; Houston, TX, US
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Origins of Carbonate-Bearing Rocks in Jezero Crater
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