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Lunar and Planetary Institute
Facility•Houston, Texas, United States•
About: Lunar and Planetary Institute is a facility organization based out in Houston, Texas, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Impact crater & Mars Exploration Program. The organization has 518 authors who have published 1635 publications receiving 67347 citations. The organization is also known as: LPI & Lunar & Planetary Institute.
Topics: Impact crater, Mars Exploration Program, Meteorite, Basalt, Martian
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California Institute of Technology1, University of California, Davis2, University of Tennessee3, Imperial College London4, Arizona State University5, United States Geological Survey6, Princeton University7, Indiana University8, University of Nantes9, Brown University10, Goddard Space Flight Center11, Ames Research Center12, State University of New York System13, Jacobs Engineering Group14, Planetary Science Institute15, University of Guelph16, Los Alamos National Laboratory17, University of Toulouse18, Smithsonian Institution19, Washington University in St. Louis20, University of Washington21, University of California, Berkeley22, University of Lyon23, University of Texas at Austin24, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute25, Canadian Space Agency26, NASA Headquarters27, University of New Mexico28, University of Hawaii at Manoa29, Brock University30, Cornell University31, Carnegie Institution for Science32, Massachusetts Institute of Technology33, Lunar and Planetary Institute34
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.
Abstract: 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. This aqueous environment was characterized by neutral pH, low salinity, and variable redox states of both iron and sulfur species. Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen, and phosphorus were measured directly as key biogenic elements; by inference, phosphorus is assumed to have been available. The environment probably had a minimum duration of hundreds to tens of thousands of years. These results highlight the biological viability of fluvial-lacustrine environments in the post-Noachian history of Mars.
770 citations
TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of the hydrologic response of a water-rich Mars to climate change and to the physical and thermal evolution of its crust is carried out, with particular attention given to the potential role of the subsurface transport, assuming that the current models of insolation-driven change describe reasonably the atmospheric leg of the planet's long-term hydrological cycle.
Abstract: An analysis is carried out of the hydrologic response of a water-rich Mars to climate change and to the physical and thermal evolution of its crust, with particular attention given to the potential role of the subsurface transport, assuming that the current models of insolation-driven change describe reasonably the atmospheric leg of the planet's long-term hydrologic cycle. Among the items considered are the thermal and hydrologic properties of the crust, the potential distribution of ground ice and ground water, the stability and replenishment of equatorial ground ice, basal melting and the polar mass balance, the thermal evolution of the early cryosphere, the recharge of the valley networks and outflow, and several processes that are likely to drive the large-scale vertical and horizontal transport of H2O within the crust. The results lead to the conclusion that subsurface transport has likely played an important role in the geomorphic evolution of the Martian surface and the long-term cycling of H2O between the atmosphere, polar caps, and near-surface crust.
731 citations
Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris1, Goddard Space Flight Center2, University of California, Santa Cruz3, Lunar and Planetary Institute4, University of Hawaii5, Purdue University6, Southwest Research Institute7, Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory8, Carnegie Institution for Science9, Colorado School of Mines10, California Institute of Technology11, Massachusetts Institute of Technology12
TL;DR: In this article, high-resolution gravity data obtained from the dual Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft show that the bulk density of the Moon's highlands crust is 2550 kilograms per cubic meter, substantially lower than generally assumed.
Abstract: High-resolution gravity data obtained from the dual Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) spacecraft show that the bulk density of the Moon's highlands crust is 2550 kilograms per cubic meter, substantially lower than generally assumed. When combined with remote sensing and sample data, this density implies an average crustal porosity of 12% to depths of at least a few kilometers. Lateral variations in crustal porosity correlate with the largest impact basins, whereas lateral variations in crustal density correlate with crustal composition. The low-bulk crustal density allows construction of a global crustal thickness model that satisfies the Apollo seismic constraints, and with an average crustal thickness between 34 and 43 kilometers, the bulk refractory element composition of the Moon is not required to be enriched with respect to that of Earth.
675 citations
TL;DR: Experimental techniques for examining trace element behavior are reviewed in this paper, and applications of these techniques are described for a variety of partition coefficients including: olivine/liquid, subcalcic pyroxene/ liquid, calcic pyrosene/liquid and perovskite/liquid.
623 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the hydraulic and thermal conditions that gave rise to the elevated source regions of the Late Hesperian outflow channels and explore their implications for the evolution of the Martian hydrosphere.
590 citations
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| Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Adam P. Showman | 92 | 331 | 26340 |
| Clark R. Chapman | 76 | 423 | 16243 |
| Roger J. Phillips | 75 | 325 | 20830 |
| Victor R. Baker | 74 | 465 | 18408 |
| Bruce M. Jakosky | 71 | 441 | 20916 |
| Roberta L. Rudnick | 70 | 177 | 28515 |
| Roger V. Yelle | 69 | 299 | 14469 |
| William F. McDonough | 69 | 279 | 43476 |
| Ernst Zinner | 67 | 358 | 14907 |
| William V. Boynton | 63 | 454 | 20665 |
| Michael E. Zolensky | 62 | 469 | 17226 |
| Paul M. Schenk | 61 | 396 | 12133 |
| Stuart Ross Taylor | 61 | 188 | 35080 |
| Christian Koeberl | 61 | 624 | 16060 |
| Bill R. Sandel | 60 | 269 | 12138 |