¹Javier Cuadros
¹Earth Sciences Department, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, U.K.

The Curiosity rover on Mars, landed in 2012, is capable of mineralogical investigation using X-ray diffraction, complementing the abundant infrared remote sensing data already available on clay minerals. We can, however, expect that the in situ X-ray diffraction information will convey a more complex picture than that inferred from infrared spectroscopy alone. CheMin has landed.

Reference
Cuadros J (2015) Clays are messy—also on Mars. American Mineralogist, 100, 669-670
Link to Article [doi:10.2138/am-2015-5229]

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