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Exploring Gusev Crater with Spirit: Review of Science Objectives and Testable Hypotheses Nathalie A JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 108, NO. E12, 8076, doi:10.1029/2002JE002026, 2003 Exploring Gusev Crater with Spirit: Review of science objectives and testable hypotheses Nathalie A. Cabrol,1 Edmond A. Grin,1 Michael H. Carr,2 Brad Sutter,1 Jeffrey M. Moore,1 Jack D. Farmer,3 Ronald Greeley,3 Ruslan O. Kuzmin,4 David J. DesMarais,1 Marc G. Kramer,1 Horton Newsom,5 Charles Barber,5 Ivan Thorsos,5 Kenneth L. Tanaka,6 Nadine G. Barlow,7 David A. Fike,8 Mary L. Urquhart,9 Brian Grigsby,10 Frederick D. Grant,11,12 and Olivier de Goursac13 Received 5 December 2002; revised 28 August 2003; accepted 3 September 2003; published 30 December 2003. [1] Gusev Crater was selected as the landing site for the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit mission. Located at the outlet of Ma’adim Vallis and 250 km south of the volcano Apollinaris Patera, Gusev is an outstanding site to achieve the goals of the MER mission. The crater could have collected sediments from a variety of sources during its 3.9 Ga history, including fluvial, lacustrine, volcanic, glacial, impact, regional and local aeolian, and global air falls. It is a unique site to investigate the past history of water on Mars, climate and geological changes, and the potential habitability of the planet, which are central science objectives of the MER mission. Because of its complex history and potential diversity, Gusev will allow the testing of a large spectrum of hypotheses with the complete suite of MER instruments. Evidence consistent with long-lived lake episodes exist in the landing ellipse area. They might offer a unique opportunity to study, for the first time, Martian aqueous sediments and minerals formed in situ in their geological context. We review the geological history and diversity of the landing site, the science hypotheses that can be tested during the MER mission, and the relevance of Gusev to the MER mission objectives and payload. INDEX TERMS: 6225 Planetology: Solar System Objects: Mars; 5470 Planetology: Solid Surface Planets: Surface materials and properties; KEYWORDS: Gusev, lake, Apollinaris Patera, Spirit rover Citation: Cabrol, N. A., et al., Exploring Gusev Crater with Spirit: Review of science objectives and testable hypotheses, J. Geophys. Res., 108(E12), 8076, doi:10.1029/2002JE002026, 2003. 1. Introduction engineering constraints, schedule and payloads (Mars Exploration Program, MER PIP, August 2001) [Golombek [2]TheMERlandingsiteshavebeenselectedinorderto et al., 2001]. The goal for each rover mission is to determine maximize the mission science return within the constraints the aqueous, climatic, and geologic history of a site on Mars of the Mars Exploration Project (MEP), which include where conditions may have been favorable for the preser- vation of evidence containing possible prebiotic or biotic 1NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA. processes. While encompassing a wide range of possible 2U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California, USA. 3 settings that include former fluvial, lacustrine and/or hydro- Department of Geological Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, thermal environments, clear evidence for surface processes Arizona, USA. 4Vernadsky Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia. involving ancient water was the main scientific criteria used 5Institute of Meteoritics and Department of Earth and Planetary in the identification and selection of the two final landing Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. sites. Out of 185 candidates, Gusev crater and Meridiani 6 Department of Physics and Astronomy, Northern Arizona University, Planum (a.k.a. the Hematite) were finally selected as the Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. 7U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA. landing sites for, respectively, the Spirit and Opportunity 8Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Massa- rovers after two years of down selection. At Gusev the chussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. evidence for past water action is morphological with the 9 Department of Science and Mathematics Education, University of large Ma’adim Vallis entering the crater basin, whereas at Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas, USA. 10Schreder Planetarium, Redding, California, USA. Meridiani Planum, the presence of the mineral hematite is 11Department of Geology, University of Mississippi, Jackson, Mis- consistent with the existence of an ancient aqueous envi- sissippi, USA. ronment. This paper focuses on Gusev crater. 12 Now at Department of Geological Sciences, Arizona State University, [3] Gusev Crater is a 150 km diameter impact basin that Tempe, Arizona, USA. collected flows from the 900 km long Ma’adim Vallis, as 13Mars Society en France, Suresnes, France. well as depositional inputs from Apollinaris Patera, an Copyright 2003 by the American Geophysical Union. ancient volcano located 250 km to the North. The unique 0148-0227/03/2002JE002026 geological setting of Gusev Crater makes it an outstanding ROV 17 - 1 ROV 17 - 2CABROLETAL.:EXPLORINGGUSEVCRATERWITHSPIRIT Figure 1. Map of Gusev and the MER A landing ellipse with part of MOC narrow-angle high- resolution image coverage. The central region of the ellipse has the greatest probability of landing. The central region is located at the lowest part of Gusev and shows numerous layered deposits of various albedo, potential rover access to outcrop, and varied landforms. The ellipse is at the distal end of the Ma’adim Vallis deltaic region. By comparison with terrestrial lake bed analogs, this region is a favorable location for the preservation of fossil records. candidate site for addressing the overarching MEP goal to unprecedented opportunity to learn about the history of ‘‘follow the water’’ (E. Weiler, NASA, 2003). In this paper water, climate and potential habitability of Mars [Farmer, we also show that Gusev Crater is an excellent site for 1995]. The varied interpretations that have been offered by addressing the key science objectives of the MER mission. previous workers to explain the features and geologic history Since Viking, Gusev Crater has been hypothesized to have of Gusev Crater define a set of multiple working hypotheses been a locus for prolonged fluvial and lacustrine activity that are amenable to testing using the rover payload. [Cabrol and Grin,1995;Cabrol et al.,1998a,1998b;Grin [4] The following sections review (a) the science ques- and Cabrol,1997].Theseearlierhypotheseshavebeen tions that have been raised by previous works to explain strengthened by new data returned from Mars Global Gusev’s geologic history; (b) the hypotheses developed Surveyor (MGS) and Mars Odyssey (MO). Moreover, the after the Viking missions; (c) how these hypotheses have prolonged ( 3.9 Ga) depositional history of Gusev Crater fared with the arrival of the data from recent missions; provides access to a potentially wide diversity of deposi- (d) what new hypotheses are suggested by observations and tional processes and products, including (a) fluvial and/or results from MGS and MO; and (e) how to test these glacial deposits derived from a wide variety of parent rock hypotheses with the MER payload and within the range of units exposed in the watershed of Ma’adim Vallis, a a rover mission traverse. catchment area of several million square kilometers [Irwin et al., 2002]; (b) volcanic materials (e.g., air fall tuffs, pyroclasts) originating from Apollinaris Patera; (c) globally 2. Geological Context derived atmospheric dust deposits; (d) coarser-grained [5]Thestudyofgeologicalunitsinthewatershedregion wind-deposited material derived from local and regional of Ma’adim provides critical information for understanding sources [McCauley, 1973]; (e) ejecta deposits from regional the nature of the parent rocks which provided sediments to impacts, and (f ) aqueous sediments deposited by streams or the floor of Gusev Crater and which will be accessible lakes. The diversity of geologic processes that appear to within the MER landing site area (Figure 1). Regional have affected Gusev Crater over its long history and investigations were carried out by Tanaka [1986] Greeley potentially extensive depositional record, suggests an and Guest [1987], Kuzmin et al. [2000] and Hartmann and CABROL ET AL.: EXPLORING GUSEV CRATER WITH SPIRIT ROV 17 - 3 Neukum [2001] using Viking data and Mars Orbiter Camera have occurred at least episodically through geologic time (MOC) images. More recently, Irwin et al. [2002] and [Mangold et al.,2002;Hartmann et al.,2002].Alternatively, M. Kramer et al. (manuscript in preparation, 2003) have the gullies may represent erosion produced by CO2 discharge revisited earlier interpretations using MOC, Mars Orbiter [Musselwhite et al.,2001],althoughStewart and Nimmo Altimeter (MOLA) and Mars Orbiter (MO) data. This [2001] argue that CO2 is too unstable to produce the gullies. previous work, which is reviewed in the following sections, Other hypotheses to explain the formation of the gullies have provides a context for understanding the geologic history of been presented. They include: avalanches of rocks and debris the Gusev Crater and surrounding terrain. or dust [Bulmer et al., 2002], and the melting of ice and snowpacks [Lee et al.,2002;Christensen,2003]. 2.1. Noachian Stratigraphy [9] The processes operative during the Noachian could [6]TheMa’adimVallis/Gusevcratersystemdissects have produced a myriad of primary lithologies, weathering cratered highland rocks of Middle Noachian age [Greeley products, secondary mineralization,
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