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1 THE CHEMISTRY OF MARS Heather Tennant Earth 438 Presented March 11, 2014

2 Motivation Bulk Chemical Composition Formation and evolution of the planet Initial concentrations of surface components Surface Chemistry Geologic processes throughout history Aqueous Alteration Differentiation Geochemical cycling Biological implications

3 Bulk Composition Methods of estimation: Geochemical/cosmochemical models Meteorites, chondrites Isotopic Meteorites, chondrites Geophysical Bulk density, moment of inertia, Love number, radius Need for seismic data and heat flow data

4 Bulk Composition

5 Surface Chemistry Methods of measurement: Orbital/Remote Sensing Reflectance spectroscopy Gamma Ray Spectroscopy Neutron Spectroscopy In situ measurements Spectroscopy Imaging Meteorites

6 Geochemical Mapping (Odessey GRS) 5 Geochemical Provinces

7 Carbonation and Chlorination (CHRISM)

8 Sulfur Cycling

9 Petrochemistry of Jake_M (MAHLI,APXS) E. M. Stolper et al., Science 21 February 2014

10 Chemical Analysis of Rocknest (APXS)

11 2012 Meteorite - Tissint H. Chennaoui Aoudjehane Science 9 November 2012

12 Future Directions Seismometers Raman Spectroscopy (MarsExo 2018) Sample Return


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