¹Yanhao Lin, ¹Elodie J. Tronche, ¹Edgar S. Steenstra, ¹Wim van Westrenen
Nature Geoscience 10, 14-18 Link to Article [doi:10.1038/ngeo2845]
¹Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences, VU Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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^1,2Olivier Namur, ¹Bernard Charlier
Nature Geoscience 10, 9-13 Link to Article [doi:10.1038/ngeo2860]
¹Leibniz University Hannover, Institute of Mineralogy, 30167 Hannover, Germany
²University of Liège, Department of Geology, 4000 Sart-Tilman, Belgium

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¹Kevin M. Cannon, ¹John F. Mustard, ¹Stephen W. Parman, ²Elizabeth C. Sklute, ²M. Darby Dyar, ¹Reid F. Cooper
Journal of Geophysical Research Planets (in Press) Link to Article [DOI: 10.1002/2016JE005219]
¹Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
²Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, USA
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Thirty silicate glasses were synthesized as realistic analogs to those expected to exist on Mars, the Moon and Mercury. Samples were measured using visible/near-infrared and Mössbauer spectroscopy to determine the effects of varying bulk chemistry, oxygen fugacity, and temperature on spectral properties. For martian glasses, the fO2 during fusion strongly affects absorption band intensities in the spectra, while bulk chemistry has noticeable secondary effects on absorption band positions. Titanium and iron content drive spectral changes in lunar glasses, where Fe3+ is effectively absent. Iron-free Mercury-analog glasses have much higher albedos than all other samples, and their spectral shape is a close match to some pyroclastic deposits on Mercury. Synthetic glass spectra were used as inputs into a spectral unmixing model applied to remote orbital datasets to test for the presence of glass. The model is validated against physical laboratory mixture spectra, as well as previous detections of glass-rich pyroclastic deposits on the Moon. Remote data were then used from suspected impact deposits and possible pyroclastic deposits on Mars as a new application of the model: the results reveal spatially coherent glass-rich material, and the strong spectral match of the synthetic glasses to these remotely sensed data gives new insights into the presence and character of glasses on the martian surface. The large library of glass spectra generated here, acquired from consistently synthesized and measured samples, can serve as a resource for further studies of volcanic and impact processes on planetary bodies.