Title: Studies of Minerals Using Thermal Emission Spectroscopy for Application to Mars and Meteorites
1Studies of Minerals Using Thermal Emission
Spectroscopy for Application to Mars and
Meteorites
2Laboratory Thermal Emission Spectroscopy
(measurement of emitted energy from heated
samples over 5 50 mm 2000 200 cm-1)
- Sulfates
- Phosphates
- Olivines
Samples measured at ASU
3Gusev Crater, Mars Paso Robles ferric-sulfate-rich
soil
Lane, M. D. et al. (submitted) American
Mineralogist
Lane, M. D. (2007) American Mineralogist, 92,
1-18.
MFR and Odyssey funded
4Gusev Crater, Mars Paso Robles ferric-sulfate- ric
h soil
Submitted an MFR proposal
5Synthetic forsterite-fayalite suite (Mg- to
Fe-olivine) PGG funded Application to NWA2737
and other meteorites and remote sensing of
planetary surfaces.
6Future work
- Determine the sulfate minerals present in
additional bright soils on Mars.
7Future work
- Determine the sulfate minerals present in
additional bright soils on Mars. - Determine the sulfates present in the Meridiani
bedrock
8Other Projects
- Continue spectral study of phosphates (proposed)
- Emission spectroscopy of sulfides (funded)
- TES and THEMIS mapping of NE Meridiani Planum and
other regions (funded proposed) - Lithologic (periglacial) mapping in the Martian
northern plains using TES and THEMIS data
(funded) hydrovolcanic landforms (proposed) - Continue study of meteorites (funded)
- Spectral analysis of the Brophy Sheridan 1965
suite of jarosites and alunites
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