Aqueously altered igneous rocks sampled on the floor of Jezero crater, Mars

KA Farley, KM Stack, DL Shuster, BHN Horgan… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, Mars, to investigate ancient lake and river
deposits. We report observations of the crater floor, below the crater's sedimentary delta …

Compositionally and density stratified igneous terrain in Jezero crater, Mars

RC Wiens, A Udry, O Beyssac, C Quantin-Nataf… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Before Perseverance, Jezero crater's floor was variably hypothesized to have a lacustrine,
lava, volcanic airfall, or aeolian origin. SuperCam observations in the first 286 Mars days on …

Aqueous alteration processes in Jezero crater, Mars—implications for organic geochemistry

EL Scheller, J Razzell Hollis, EL Cardarelli, A Steele… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, Mars, in February 2021. We used the
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and …

Diverse organic-mineral associations in Jezero crater, Mars

S Sharma, RD Roppel, AE Murphy, LW Beegle… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The presence and distribution of preserved organic matter on the surface of Mars can
provide key information about the Martian carbon cycle and the potential of the planet to host …

On the diversity and formation modes of martian minerals

RM Hazen, RT Downs, SM Morrison… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A systematic survey of 161 known and postulated minerals originating on Mars points to 20
different mineral‐forming processes (paragenetic modes), which are a subset of formation …

Alteration history of Séítah formation rocks inferred by PIXL x-ray fluorescence, x-ray diffraction, and multispectral imaging on Mars

MM Tice, JA Hurowitz, AC Allwood, MWM Jones… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Collocated crystal sizes and mineral identities are critical for interpreting textural
relationships in rocks and testing geological hypotheses, but it has been previously …

Samples collected from the floor of Jezero Crater with the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover

JI Simon, K Hickman‐Lewis, BA Cohen… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The first samples collected by the Mars 2020 mission represent units exposed on the Jezero
Crater floor, from the potentially oldest Séítah formation outcrops to the potentially youngest …

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 …

Exploring beyond Earth using space robotics

SA Chien, G Visentin, C Basich - Science Robotics, 2024 - science.org
Robotic spacecraft enable exploration of our Solar System beyond our human presence.
Although spacecraft have explored every planet in the Solar System, the frontiers of space …

Inorganic interpretation of luminescent materials encountered by the Perseverance rover on Mars

EL Scheller, T Bosak, FM McCubbin, K Williford… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
A major objective of the Mars 2020 mission is to sample rocks in Jezero crater that may
preserve organic matter for later return to Earth. Using an ultraviolet Raman and …