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How Do Modern Extreme Hydrothermal Environments Inform the Identification of Martian Habitability? The Case of the El Tatio Geyser Field

Despite the success in knowledge gained by the Mars missions in the last two decades, the search for traces of life on Mars is still in progress. The reconstruction of (paleo-) environments on Mars have seen a dramatic increase, in particular with regard to the potentially habitable conditions, and it is now possible to recognize a significant role to subaerial hydrothermal processes. For this ...

Martian Impact Cratering and Martian Layered Sediments

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Mineralogy in the Martian Hydrosphere

Introduction: Mineral equilibria provide predic-tors of properties important in aqueous geochemistry (solubility, freezing, precipitation, dissolution, etc.). Prediction works well where groundwater is well above freezing, but less so where only thin films of cold water and ice are present. Calculations are also limited where water/rock ratios are small, the general case on Mars. On Mars many m...

Carbonates in the Martian meteorite

Despite evidence for liquid water at the surface of Mars during the Noachian epoch, the temperature of early aqueous environments has been impossible to establish, raising questions of whether the surface of Mars was ever warmer than today. We address this problem by determining the precipitation temperature of secondary carbonate minerals preserved in the oldest known sample of Mars’ crust—the...