An olivine cumulate outcrop on the floor of Jezero crater, Mars

Y Liu¹, M M Tice², M E Schmidt³, A H Treiman⁴, T V Kizovski³, J A Hurowitz⁵, A C Allwood¹, J Henneke⁶, D A K Pedersen⁶, S J VanBommel⁷, M W M Jones^{8

9}, A L Knight⁷, B J Orenstein¹⁰, B C Clark¹¹, W T Elam¹², C M Heirwegh¹, T Barber¹, L W Beegle¹, K Benzerara¹³, S Bernard¹³, O Beyssac¹³, T Bosak¹⁴, A J Brown¹⁵, E L Cardarelli¹, D C Catling¹⁶, J R Christian⁷, E A Cloutis¹⁷, B A Cohen¹⁸, S Davidoff¹, A G Fairén^{19

20}, K A Farley²¹, D T Flannery¹⁰, A Galvin¹, J P Grotzinger²¹, S Gupta²², J Hall¹⁴, C D K Herd²³, K Hickman-Lewis^{24

25}, R P Hodyss¹, B H N Horgan²⁶, J R Johnson²⁷, J L Jørgensen⁶, L C Kah²⁸, J N Maki¹, L Mandon²⁹, N Mangold³⁰, F M McCubbin³¹, S M McLennan⁵, K Moore²¹, M Nachon², P Nemere¹⁰, L D Nothdurft¹⁰, J I Núñez²⁷, L O'Neil¹², C M Quantin-Nataf³², V Sautter¹³, D L Shuster³³, K L Siebach³⁴, J I Simon³¹, K P Sinclair¹², K M Stack¹, A Steele³⁵, J D Tarnas¹, N J Tosca³⁶, K Uckert¹, A Udry³⁷, L A Wade¹, B P Weiss¹⁴, R C Wiens³⁸, K H Williford^{1

39}, M-P Zorzano¹⁹

Affiliations

¹ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA.
² Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
³ Department of Earth Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada.
⁴ Lunar and Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association, Houston, TX 77058, USA.
⁵ Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.
⁶ Department of Space, Measurement and Instrumentation, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
⁷ McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.
⁸ Central Analytical Research Facility, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia.
⁹ School of Chemistry and Physics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia.
¹⁰ School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia.
¹¹ Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO 80301, USA.
¹² Applied Physics Lab and Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98052, USA.
¹³ Institut de Minéralogie, Physique des Matériaux et Cosmochimie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France.
¹⁴ Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
¹⁵ Plancius Research, Severna Park, MD 21146, USA.
¹⁶ Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195, USA.
¹⁷ Department of Geography, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9, Canada.
¹⁸ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.
¹⁹ Centro de Astrobiología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas-Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial, 28850 Madrid, Spain.
²⁰ Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
²¹ Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
²² Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
²³ Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3, Canada.
²⁴ Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, South Kensington, London, SW7 5BD UK.
²⁵ Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Università di Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy.
²⁶ Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
²⁷ Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723, USA.
²⁸ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.
²⁹ Laboratoire d'Etudes Spatiales et d'Instrumentation en Astrophysique, Observatoire de Paris-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris Cité, 92190 Meudon, France.
³⁰ Laboratoire Planetologie et Geosciences, Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques, Universite Nantes, Universite Angers, Unite Mixte de Recherche 6112, 44322 Nantes, France.
³¹ NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, USA.
³² Laboratoire de Geologie de Lyon-Terre Planetes Environnement, Université Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Ecole Normale Superieure Lyon, Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques, 69622 Villeurbanne, France.
³³ Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
³⁴ Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
³⁵ Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC 20015, USA.
³⁶ Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK.
³⁷ Department of Geosciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA.
³⁸ Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.
³⁹ Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, WA 98104, USA.

PMID: 36007094
DOI: 10.1126/science.abo2756

An olivine cumulate outcrop on the floor of Jezero crater, Mars

Y Liu et al. Science. 2022.

. 2022 Sep 30;377(6614):1513-1519.

doi: 10.1126/science.abo2756. Epub 2022 Aug 25.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA.
² Department of Geology and Geophysics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, USA.
³ Department of Earth Sciences, Brock University, St. Catharines, ON L2S 3A1, Canada.
⁴ Lunar and Planetary Institute, Universities Space Research Association, Houston, TX 77058, USA.
⁵ Department of Geosciences, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794, USA.
⁶ Department of Space, Measurement and Instrumentation, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
⁷ McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.
⁸ Central Analytical Research Facility, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia.
⁹ School of Chemistry and Physics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia.
¹⁰ School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia.
¹¹ Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO 80301, USA.
¹² Applied Physics Lab and Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98052, USA.
¹³ Institut de Minéralogie, Physique des Matériaux et Cosmochimie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Université, 75005 Paris, France.
¹⁴ Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
¹⁵ Plancius Research, Severna Park, MD 21146, USA.
¹⁶ Department of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle WA 98195, USA.
¹⁷ Department of Geography, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9, Canada.
¹⁸ NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.
¹⁹ Centro de Astrobiología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas-Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial, 28850 Madrid, Spain.
²⁰ Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
²¹ Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA.
²² Department of Earth Science and Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
²³ Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E3, Canada.
²⁴ Department of Earth Sciences, The Natural History Museum, South Kensington, London, SW7 5BD UK.
²⁵ Dipartimento di Scienze Biologiche, Geologiche e Ambientali, Università di Bologna, I-40126 Bologna, Italy.
²⁶ Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
²⁷ Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723, USA.
²⁸ Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA.
²⁹ Laboratoire d'Etudes Spatiales et d'Instrumentation en Astrophysique, Observatoire de Paris-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris Cité, 92190 Meudon, France.
³⁰ Laboratoire Planetologie et Geosciences, Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques, Universite Nantes, Universite Angers, Unite Mixte de Recherche 6112, 44322 Nantes, France.
³¹ NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, USA.
³² Laboratoire de Geologie de Lyon-Terre Planetes Environnement, Université Lyon, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Ecole Normale Superieure Lyon, Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques, 69622 Villeurbanne, France.
³³ Department of Earth and Planetary Science, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
³⁴ Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
³⁵ Earth and Planets Laboratory, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, DC 20015, USA.
³⁶ Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 3EQ, UK.
³⁷ Department of Geosciences, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 89154, USA.
³⁸ Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA.
³⁹ Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Seattle, WA 98104, USA.

PMID: 36007094
DOI: 10.1126/science.abo2756

Abstract

The geological units on the floor of Jezero crater, Mars, are part of a wider regional stratigraphy of olivine-rich rocks, which extends well beyond the crater. We investigated the petrology of olivine and carbonate-bearing rocks of the Séítah formation in the floor of Jezero. Using multispectral images and x-ray fluorescence data, acquired by the Perseverance rover, we performed a petrographic analysis of the Bastide and Brac outcrops within this unit. We found that these outcrops are composed of igneous rock, moderately altered by aqueous fluid. The igneous rocks are mainly made of coarse-grained olivine, similar to some martian meteorites. We interpret them as an olivine cumulate, formed by settling and enrichment of olivine through multistage cooling of a thick magma body.

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