Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1774013 | Icarus | 2010 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
Ferric sulfates were observed on Mars during orbital remote sensing and surface explorations. These observations have stimulated our systematic experimental investigation on the formative conditions, stability fields, phase boundaries, and phase transition pathways of these important minerals. We report here the results from the first step of this project: eight synthesized anhydrous and hydrous crystalline ferric sulfates and their structural characters reflected through spectroscopic studies. A few phenomena observed during the 150 sets of on-going experiments for stability field study are also reported, which reveal the structural distortions that can happen under environmental conditions relevant to Mars.
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Authors
Z.C. Ling, Alian Wang,