Suche nach Kupfersulfiden und Schwefelchemie in der Kruste des Planeten Mars, basierend auf geochemischen Messungen des NASA Mars-Rovers MSL

• Antragsteller: Privatdozent Walter Goetz, Ph.D.
• Fachliche Zuordnung: Mineralogie, Petrologie und Geochemie
• Förderung: Förderung von 2018 bis 2026
• Projektkennung: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Projektnummer 405935700

• Erstellungsjahr: 2017

Zusammenfassung der Projektergebnisse

In Nov. 2011 the applicant was selected by NASA to become a Participating Scientist & Co-I on the MSL rover mission. However, due to extremely dusty environment in the beginning of the mission the generation of “mineral maps” along the rover traverse (as originally and successfully applied for [to NASA] in 2011) was not possible and it became clear very quickly that this project would have to be continued over many months (and even years) ahead to produce a significant science return. Therefore and given the lack of a PhD position the applicant’s science focus moved to project #1: Spatial scale determined for images that have been acquired by the rover cameras and to project #2: distribution of copper along the rover traverse (as based on LIBS spectra, Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy). Both projects have been pursued by the applicant for several years and dominate the applicant’s current profile in the NASA MSL Science Team. Moreover, both projects are promising topics for further investigations and for participation in the next large NASA mission to Mars (the NASA-2020 rover). Project #1 is basically finished and the related internet resource (called ASIC, Approximate Scale for Images acquired by the Curiosity Rover) will be opened up to the MSL Science Team during next Science Team Meeting (Pasadena, Jan 30, 2018). Project #2 is unfinished, although proceeding continuously.

Projektbezogene Publikationen (Auswahl)

• Curiosity’s Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) Investigation. Space Science Reviews, 170(1-4), 259-317.
  Edgett, Kenneth S.; Yingst, R. Aileen; Ravine, Michael A.; Caplinger, Michael A.; Maki, Justin N.; Ghaemi, F. Tony; Schaffner, Jacob A.; Bell, James F.; Edwards, Laurence J.; Herkenhoff, Kenneth E.; Heydari, Ezat; Kah, Linda C.; Lemmon, Mark T.; Minitti, Michelle E.; Olson, Timothy S.; Parker, Timothy J.; Rowland, Scott K.; Schieber, Juergen; Sullivan, Robert J. ... & Goetz, Walter
  
• Characteristics of pebble‐ and cobble‐sized clasts along the Curiosity rover traverse from Bradbury Landing to Rocknest. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 118(11), 2361-2380.
  Yingst, R. A.; Kah, L. C.; Palucis, M.; Williams, R. M. E.; Garvin, J.; Bridges, J. C.; Bridges, N.; Deen, R. G.; Farmer, J.; Gasnault, O.; Goetz, W.; Hamilton, V. E.; Hipkin, V.; Jensen, J. K.; King, P. L.; Koefoed, A.; Le Mouélic, S. P.; Madsen, M. B.; Mangold, N. ... & Wiens, R. C.
  
• Compositional Variations of Rocknest Sand, Gale Crater, Mars, Geophysical Research Abstracts, Vol. 15, EGU2013-2179, EGU General Assembly
  Goetz
  
• Curiosity at Gale Crater, Mars: Characterization and Analysis of the Rocknest Sand Shadow. Science, 341(6153).
  Blake, D. F.; Morris, R. V.; Kocurek, G.; Morrison, S. M.; Downs, R. T.; Bish, D.; Ming, D. W.; Edgett, K. S.; Rubin, D.; Goetz, W.; Madsen, M. B.; Sullivan, R.; Gellert, R.; Campbell, I.; Treiman, A. H.; McLennan, S. M.; Yen, A. S.; Grotzinger, J.; Vaniman, D. T. ... & Zorzano, Mier María-Paz
  
• Martian Fluvial Conglomerates at Gale Crater. Science, 340(6136), 1068-1072.
  Williams, R. M. E.; Grotzinger, J. P.; Dietrich, W. E.; Gupta, S.; Sumner, D. Y.; Wiens, R. C.; Mangold, N.; Malin, M. C.; Edgett, K. S.; Maurice, S.; Forni, O.; Gasnault, O.; Ollila, A.; Newsom, H. E.; Dromart, G.; Palucis, M. C.; Yingst, R. A.; Anderson, R. B.; Herkenhoff, K. E. ... & Moores, John E.
  
• Morphological and Chemical Characteristics of Sediment in the Rocknest Eolian Sand Shadow, Gale Crater, Mars. #1222, LPSC XLIV
  Goetz
  
• Soil Diversity and Hydration as Observed by ChemCam at Gale Crater, Mars. Science, 341(6153).
  Meslin, P.-Y.; Gasnault, O.; Forni, O.; Schröder, S.; Cousin, A.; Berger, G.; Clegg, S. M.; Lasue, J.; Maurice, S.; Sautter, V.; Le Mouélic, S.; Wiens, R. C.; Fabre, C.; Goetz, W.; Bish, D.; Mangold, N.; Ehlmann, B.; Lanza, N.; Harri, A.-M. ... & Berger, Jeffrey
  
• Chemistry and texture of the rocks at Rocknest, Gale Crater: Evidence for sedimentary origin and diagenetic alteration. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 119(9), 2109-2131.
  Blaney, D. L.; Wiens, R. C.; Maurice, S.; Clegg, S. M.; Anderson, R. B.; Kah, L. C.; Le Mouélic, S.; Ollila, A.; Bridges, N.; Tokar, R.; Berger, G.; Bridges, J. C.; Cousin, A.; Clark, B.; Dyar, M. D.; King, P. L.; Lanza, N.; Mangold, N.; Meslin, P.‐Y. ... & Madsen, M. B.
  
• Observations and preliminary science results from the first 100 sols of MSL Rover Environmental Monitoring Station ground temperature sensor measurements at Gale Crater. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 119(4), 745-770.
  Hamilton, Victoria E.; Vasavada, Ashwin R.; Sebastián, Eduardo; de la Torre, Juárez Manuel; Ramos, Miguel; Armiens, Carlos; Arvidson, Raymond E.; Carrasco, Isaías; Christensen, Philip R.; De Pablo, Miguel A.; Goetz, Walter; Gómez‐Elvira, Javier; Lemmon, Mark T.; Madsen, Morten B.; Martín‐Torres, F. Javier; Martínez‐Frías, Jesús; Molina, Antonio; Palucis, Marisa C.; Rafkin, Scot C. R. ... & Zorzano, María‐Paz
  
• Compositions of coarse and fine particles in martian soils at gale: A window into the production of soils. Icarus, 249, 22-42.
  Cousin, A.; Meslin, P.Y.; Wiens, R.C.; Rapin, W.; Mangold, N.; Fabre, C.; Gasnault, O.; Forni, O.; Tokar, R.; Ollila, A.; Schröder, S.; Lasue, J.; Maurice, S.; Sautter, V.; Newsom, H.; Vaniman, D.; Le Mouélic, S.; Dyar, D.; Berger, G. ... & Delapp, D.
  
• Transient liquid water and water activity at Gale crater on Mars. Nature Geoscience, 8(5), 357-361.
  Martín-Torres, F. Javier; Zorzano, María-Paz; Valentín-Serrano, Patricia; Harri, Ari-Matti; Genzer, Maria; Kemppinen, Osku; Rivera-Valentin, Edgard G.; Jun, Insoo; Wray, James; Bo, Madsen Morten; Goetz, Walter; McEwen, Alfred S.; Hardgrove, Craig; Renno, Nilton; Chevrier, Vincent F.; Mischna, Michael; Navarro-González, Rafael; Martínez-Frías, Jesús; Conrad, Pamela ... & Vaniman, David
  
• Observation of > 5 wt % zinc at the Kimberley outcrop, Gale crater, Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 121(3), 338-352.
  Lasue, J.; Clegg, S. M.; Forni, O.; Cousin, A.; Wiens, R. C.; Lanza, N.; Mangold, N.; Le Deit, L.; Gasnault, O.; Maurice, S.; Berger, J. A.; Stack, K.; Blaney, D.; Fabre, C.; Goetz, W.; Johnson, J.; Le Mouélic, S.; Nachon, M.; Payré, V. ... & Sumner, D. Y.
  
• Strong Enrichment in Copper in the Kimberley Area, Gale Crater, Mars, #2942, LPSC XLVII
  Goetz
  
• Centimeter to decimeter hollow concretions and voids in Gale Crater sediments, Mars. Icarus, 289, 144-156.
  Wiens, Roger C.; Rubin, David M.; Goetz, Walter; Fairén, Alberto G.; Schwenzer, Susanne P.; Johnson, Jeffrey R.; Milliken, Ralph; Clark, Ben; Mangold, Nicolas; Stack, Kathryn M.; Oehler, Dorothy; Rowland, Scott; Chan, Marjorie; Vaniman, David; Maurice, Sylvestre; Gasnault, Olivier; Rapin, William; Schroeder, Susanne; Clegg, Sam ... & Grotzinger, John P.
  
• Detection of Copper by the ChemCam Instrument along the Traverse of the Curiosity Rover, Gale Crater, Mars, #2894, LPSC XLVIII
  Goetz
  
• Fluidized-sediment pipes in Gale crater, Mars, and possible Earth analogs. Geology, 45(1), 7-10.
  Rubin, David M.; Fairén, A.G.; Martínez-Frías, J.; Frydenvang, J.; Gasnault, O.; Gelfenbaum, G.; Goetz, W.; Grotzinger, J.P.; Le Mouélic, S.; Mangold, N.; Newsom, H.; Oehler, D.Z.; Rapin, W.; Schieber, J. & Wiens, R.C.