Surface clay formation during short-term warmer and wetter conditions on a largely cold ancient Mars

1,2Janice L. Bishop, 3,4Alberto G. Fairén, 5Joseph R. Michalski, 6Luis Gago-Duport, 7Leslie L. Baker, 8,9Michael A. Velbel, 10Christoph Gross, 11Elizabeth B. Rampe
Nature Astronomy (in Press) Link to Article [doi:10.1038/s41550-017-0377-9]
1SETI Institute, Mountain View, CA, USA
2National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
3Centro de Astrobiología (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas–Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial), Madrid, Spain
4Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
5Department of Earth Sciences & Laboratory for Space Research, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
6University of Vigo, Vigo, Spain
7University of Idaho, Moscow, ID, USA
8Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA
9Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, USA
10Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany
11National Aeronautics and Space Administration–Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, USA

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