Curiosity at Vera Rubin Ridge: Testable Hypotheses, First Results, and Implications for Habitability
Abigail Fraeman1, Candice Bedford2, John Bridges3, Lauren A Edgar4, Craig Hardgrove5, Briony H N Horgan6, Travis Gabriel7, John P Grotzinger8, Sanjeev Gupta9, Jeffrey Roy Johnson10, Elizabeth B Rampe11, Richard V Morris11, Mark R Salvatore12, Susanne P Schwenzer13, Kathryn Stack14, Patrick Claude Pinet15, David M Rubin16, Catherine M Weitz17, Danika F Wellington7, Roger C Wiens18, Amy J Williams19 and Ashwin R Vasavada14, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, United States, (3)University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom, (4)USGS, Astrogeology, Flagstaff, United States, (5)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (6)Purdue University, Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, West Lafayette, IN, United States, (7)Arizona State University, Tempe, United States, (8)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (9)Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science and Engineering, London, United Kingdom, (10)Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (11)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (12)Northern Arizona University, Astronomy and Planetary Science, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (13)Open University, AstrobiologyOU, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, (14)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (15)Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), Toulouse, France, (16)University of California Santa Cruz, Earth & Planetary Sciences, Santa Cruz, CA, United States, (17)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (18)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (19)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
