Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA.
Science. 2022 Sep 30;377(6614):eabo2196. doi: 10.1126/science.abo2196.
The Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, Mars, to investigate ancient lake and river deposits. We report observations of the crater floor, below the crater's sedimentary delta, finding that the floor consists of igneous rocks altered by water. The lowest exposed unit, informally named Séítah, is a coarsely crystalline olivine-rich rock, which accumulated at the base of a magma body. Magnesium-iron carbonates along grain boundaries indicate reactions with carbon dioxide-rich water under water-poor conditions. Overlying Séítah is a unit informally named Máaz, which we interpret as lava flows or the chemical complement to Séítah in a layered igneous body. Voids in these rocks contain sulfates and perchlorates, likely introduced by later near-surface brine evaporation. Core samples of these rocks have been stored aboard Perseverance for potential return to Earth.
毅力号探测器在火星杰泽罗陨石坑着陆,以研究古代湖泊和河流沉积物。我们报告了对陨石坑底部的观测结果,该底部位于陨石坑的沉积三角洲下方,发现底部由水改变的火成岩组成。最低的暴露单元,非正式地命名为 Séítah,是一种富含橄榄石的粗晶岩石,它堆积在一个岩浆体的底部。沿颗粒边界的镁铁碳酸盐表明,在贫水条件下与富含二氧化碳的水发生了反应。Séítah 之上是一个非正式地命名为 Máaz 的单元,我们将其解释为熔岩流或分层火成体中与 Séítah 化学互补的物质。这些岩石中的空隙含有硫酸盐和高氯酸盐,可能是由后来的近地表盐水蒸发引入的。这些岩石的岩芯样本已被储存在毅力号上,以备将来可能返回地球。