Characterizing X-ray Amorphous Phases through Diffraction Profile Modeling: Understanding Weathering and Diagenesis in Gale Crater
Cherie Achilles1, Gordon Downs2, Robert T Downs3, Richard V Morris4, Steve Chipera5, Douglas W Ming4, Elizabeth B Rampe6, Amy McAdam7, Christine A Knudson8, David Frederick Blake9, Thomas Bristow10, David T Vaniman11, Albert Yen12, Shaunna M Morrison13, Patricia Craig14, Robert Hazen15, Valerie Tu16 and Nicholas Castle17, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)University of Arizona, Tucson, United States, (3)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (4)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (5)Chesapeake Energy, Oklahoma City, OK, United States, (6)NASA Johnson Space Center, Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division, Houston, TX, United States, (7)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, United States, (8)CRESST/University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (9)NASA Ames Research Center, Exobiology Branch, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (10)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (11)Planetary Science Institute, Tuscon, United States, (12)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (13)Carnegie Institution for Science Washington, Geophysical Laboratory, Washington, DC, United States, (14)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, United States, (15)Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Washington, United States, (16)Jacobs at NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, United States, (17)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States
