{ "title": "Possible Clays near Margaritifer Chaos", "authors": "HiRISE", "metadata": { "thumbnailURL": "https://static.uahirise.org/anews/2020-10-14/ESP_028288_1720.jpg", "excerpt": "The existence of clay minerals is especially interesting on Mars since we want to know under what conditions these minerals formed." }, "version": "1.5", "identifier": "ESP_028288_1720", "language": "en", "layout": { "columns": 10, "width": 1024, "margin": 85, "gutter": 20 }, "documentStyle": { "backgroundColor": "#faf7f2" }, "components": [ { "role": "heading1", "layout": "heading1Layout", "text": "HiPOD: 14 October 2020" }, { "role": "divider", "layout": "bigDividerLayout", "stroke": { "width": 3, "color": "#8c2028" } }, { "role": "title", "layout": "halfMarginBelowLayout", "text": "Possible Clays near Margaritifer Chaos" }, { "role": "photo", "layout": "fullBleedLayout", "caption": "The existence of clay minerals is especially interesting on Mars since we want to know under what conditions these minerals formed. Less than 1 km across. (NASA/JPL/UArizona)", "URL": "https://static.uahirise.org/anews/2020-10-14/ESP_028288_1720.jpg" }, { "role": "body", "format": "html", "layout": "hipodMarginLayout", "text": "
According to CRISM multispectral data, the exposures of light-toned materials (on small hills and between darker dunes) shows a strong iron-magnesium phyllosilicate (clay) signatures in this area. Phyllosilicates, or sheet silicates, are an important group of minerals that includes the micas, chlorite, serpentine, talc, and the clay minerals. (CRISM is a spectrometer also onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.)
The existence of clay minerals is especially interesting on Mars since we want to know under what conditions these minerals formed. Could it have been the presence of water?
ID: ESP_028288_1720
date: 8 August 2012
altitude: 266 km
NASA/JPL/UArizona