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Sanna Alwmark

Biträdande universitetslektor

Sanna

The Complex Exhumation History of Jezero Crater Floor Unit and Its Implication for Mars Sample Return

Författare

  • C. Quantin-Nataf
  • S. Alwmark
  • F. J. Calef
  • J. Lasue
  • K. Kinch
  • K. M. Stack
  • V. Sun
  • N. R. Williams
  • E. Dehouck
  • L. Mandon
  • N. Mangold
  • O. Beyssac
  • E. Clave
  • S. H.G. Walter
  • J. I. Simon
  • A. M. Annex
  • B. Horgan
  • James W. Rice
  • D. Shuster
  • B. Cohen
  • L. Kah
  • Steven Sholes
  • B. P. Weiss

Summary, in English

During the first year of NASA's Mars 2020 mission, Perseverance rover has investigated the dark crater floor unit of Jezero crater and four samples of this unit have been collected. The focus of this paper is to assess the potential of these samples to calibrate the crater-based Martian chronology. We first review the previous estimation of crater-based model age of this unit. Then, we investigate the impact crater density distribution across the floor unit. It reveals that the crater density is heterogeneous from areas which have been exposed to the bombardment during the last 3 Ga to areas very recently exposed to bombardment. It suggests a complex history of exposure to impact cratering. We also display evidence of several remnants of deposits on the top of the dark floor unit across Jezero below which the dark floor unit may have been buried. We propose the following scenario of burying/exhumation: the dark floor unit would have been initially buried below a unit that was a few tens of meters thick. This unit then gradually eroded away due to Aeolian processes from the northeast to the west, resulting in uneven exposure to impact bombardment over 3 Ga. A cratering model reproducing this scenario confirms the feasibility of this hypothesis. Due to the complexity of its exposure history, the Jezero dark crater floor unit will require additional detailed analysis to understand how the Mars 2020 mission samples of the crater floor can be used to inform the Martian cratering chronology.

Avdelning/ar

  • Berggrundsgeologi

Publiceringsår

2023

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volym

128

Issue

6

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • Geosciences, Multidisciplinary

Nyckelord

  • crater chronology
  • Mars

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2169-9097