Sampling Mars: Geologic context and preliminary characterization of samples collected by the NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission

CDK Herd, T Bosak, EM Hausrath… - Proceedings of the …, 2025 - pnas.org
The NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission has collected samples of rock, regolith,
and atmosphere within the Noachian-aged Jezero Crater, once the site of a delta-lake …

Sedimentology and stratigraphy of the shenandoah formation, Western Fan, Jezero Crater, Mars

KM Stack, LRW Ives, S Gupta, MP Lamb… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Sedimentary fans are key targets of exploration on Mars because they record the history of
surface aqueous activity and habitability. The sedimentary fan extending from the Neretva …

Reflectance of Jezero crater floor: 2. Mineralogical interpretation

L Mandon, C Quantin‐Nataf, C Royer… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Perseverance rover landed in the ancient lakebed of Jezero crater, Mars on February
2021. Here, we assess the mineralogy of the rocks, regolith, and dust measured during the …

Petrological traverse of the olivine cumulate Séítah formation at Jezero crater, Mars: A perspective from SuperCam onboard Perseverance

O Beyssac, O Forni, A Cousin, A Udry… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Séítah is the stratigraphically lowest formation visited by Perseverance in the Jezero crater
floor. We present the data obtained by SuperCam: texture by imagery, chemistry by Laser …

A radiometric correction method and performance characteristics for PIXL's multispectral analysis using LEDs

J Henneke, D Klevang, Y Liu, J Jørgensen… - Space Science …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL) onboard the Perseverance
rover, part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission, has the first camera system that utilizes active light …

A Mars 2020 Perseverance SuperCam Perspective on the Igneous Nature of the Máaz Formation at Jezero Crater and Link With Séítah, Mars

A Udry, A Ostwald, V Sautter, A Cousin… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The Máaz formation consists of the first lithologies in Jezero crater analyzed by the Mars
2020 Perseverance rover. This formation, investigated from Sols (Martian days) 1 to 201 and …

Evidence of Sulfate‐Rich Fluid Alteration in Jezero Crater Floor, Mars

S Siljeström, AD Czaja, A Corpolongo… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Sulfur plays a major role in martian geochemistry and sulfate minerals are important
repositories of water. However, their hydration states on Mars are poorly constrained …

Ground penetrating radar observations of the contact between the western delta and the crater floor of Jezero crater, Mars

DA Paige, SE Hamran, HEF Amundsen, T Berger… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The delta deposits in Jezero crater contain sedimentary records of potentially habitable
conditions on Mars. NASA's Perseverance rover is exploring the Jezero western delta with a …

Diverse and highly differentiated lava suite in Jezero crater, Mars: Constraints on intracrustal magmatism revealed by Mars 2020 PIXL

ME Schmidt, TV Kizovski, Y Liu… - Science …, 2025 - science.org
The Jezero crater floor features a suite of related, iron-rich lavas that were examined and
sampled by the Mars 2020 rover Perseverance, and whose textures, minerals, and …

RIMFAX ground penetrating radar reveals dielectric permittivity and rock density of shallow Martian subsurface

TM Casademont, S Eide, ES Shoemaker… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover is equipped with the RIMFAX ground
penetrating radar instrument which has been continuously surveying the shallow subsurface …