Thomas F. Bristow

TL;DR: The Curiosity rover discovered fine-grained sedimentary rocks, which are inferred to represent an ancient lake and preserve evidence of an environment that would have been suited to support a martian biosphere founded on chemolithoautotrophy.

TL;DR: Sedimentary rocks at Yellowknife Bay (Gale crater) on Mars include mudstone sampled by the Curiosity rover, indicating that clay mineral formation on Mars extended beyond Noachian time.

TL;DR: Higher abundances of chlorinated hydrocarbons in the mudstone compared with Rocknest windblown materials previously analyzed by Curiosity suggest that indigenous martian or meteoritic organic carbon sources may be preserved in the Mudstone; however, the carbon source for the chlorinatedHydrocarbons is not definitively of martian origin.

TL;DR: The Rocknest aeolian deposit is similar to aeOLian features analyzed by the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity and implies locally sourced, globally similar basaltic materials or globally and regionally sourced basALTic components deposited locally at all three locations.

TL;DR: In this paper, the first three drilled samples from the Murray formation, measured in the Pahrump Hills section, were reported, along with full pattern fitting analyses of X-ray diffraction patterns measured by the MSL CheMin instrument.