Unlocking the Climate Record Stored within Mars’ Polar Layered Deposits
Whitepaper #378 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: surface/geological evolution; Mars
by Isaac Smith, Paul O. Hayne, Shane Byrne, Patricio Becerra, Melinda Kahre, Wendy Calvin, Christine Hvidberg, Sarah Milkovich, Peter Buhler, Margaret Landis, Briony Horgan, Armin Kleinböhl, Matthew R. Perry, Rachel Obbard, Jennifer Stern, Sylvain Piqueux, Nicolas Thomas, Kris Zacny, Lynn Carter, Lauren Edgar, Jeremy Emmett, Thomas Navarro, Jennifer Hanley, Michelle Koutnik, Nathaniel Putzig, Bryana L. Henderson, John W. Holt, Bethany Ehlmann, Sergio Parra, Daniel Lalich, Candice Hansen, Michael Hecht, Don Banfield, Ken Herkenhoff, David A. Paige, Mark Skidmore, Robert L. Staehle, Matthew Siegler, A. Soto, F. Foss, S. Lewis, J. Whitten, E. Vos, P. A. Johnson, J. C. Johnson, C. Gallagher, A. Brown, T. Bertrand, C. Phillips-Lander, N. Oliveira, E. Kite, T. Thorsteinsson, L. Tamppari, E. Hauber, L. Fanara, J. Oberst, S. Ulamec, S. Cartwright, T. Harrison, S. Hibbard, A. Portyankina, and T. N. Titus
Published onMar 18, 2021
Unlocking the Climate Record Stored within Mars’ Polar Layered Deposits
We present the science drivers and a mission concept for a polar lander that would enable a future reading of the past few million years of the Martian climate record.
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