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Clay minerals on Mars: An up-to-date review with future perspectives

Ye, Binlong; Du, Peixin; Yuan, Peng +1 more

Clay minerals, or analogously phyllosilicates, are some of the most astonishing minerals ever discovered on Mars due to their roles as indicators of water-rock interaction. Their types, abundances, and locations provide hints to ancient environmental conditions of Mars and to the possible places where present-day mineral-bound water and/or biosign…

A compendium of the best-preserved terrestrial hypervelocity impact crater in a basaltic terrain: The Lonar, India

Chavan, Anil; Bhandari, Subhash; Sajinkumar, K. S. +6 more

As impact cratering is regarded as the most fundamental process in the modification of planetary surfaces, it is crucial to investigate and identify terrestrial impact craters with credible evidences to learn more about the planet's evolutionary path. Consequently, terrestrial impact craters are considered as proxies for planetary explorations. Ho…

Surface morphology of fans in the high-Arctic periglacial environment of Svalbard: Controls and processes

Hauber, Ernst; Kleinhans, Maarten G.; de Haas, Tjalling +2 more

Fan-shaped landforms occur in all climatic regions on Earth. They have been extensively studied in many of these regions, but there are few studies on fans in periglacial, Arctic and Antarctic regions. Fans in such regions are exposed to many site-specific environmental conditions in addition to their geological and topographic setting: there can …