Characterizing the subsurface distribution of high-silica features at Gale crater, Mars using active neutron experiments and LIBS geochemistry


Sean Czarnecki1,2, Craig Hardgrove1, Patrick James Gasda3, William Rapin4, Jens Frydenvang5,6, Travis Gabriel7, Maxim L Litvak8, Suzanne Nowicki2, Roger C Wiens9, Lucy M Thompson10, Horton E Newsom11, Fred J Calef III12 and Hallie Gengl13, (1)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (2)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (4)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)University of Copenhagen, København K, Denmark, (6)Natural History Museum of Denmark, København K, Denmark, (7)Arizona State University, Tempe, United States, (8)Space Research Institute RAS, Moscow, Russia, (9)Purdue University, West Lafayette, United States, (10)University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada, (11)Univ New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (12)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States, (13)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States