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Ancient alluvial plains at Oxia Planum, Mars

Fawdon, Peter; Thomas, Nicolas; Grindrod, Peter M. +4 more

The geologic origin of the ancient, phyllosilicate-bearing bedrock at Oxia Planum, Mars, the ExoMars rover landing site, is unknown. The phyllosilicates record ancient aqueous processes, but the processes that formed the host bedrock remain elusive. Here, we use high-resolution orbital and topographic datasets from the HiRISE, CaSSIS and CTX instr…