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No Blueberries or Moqui Marbles in Bagnold Dune, Mars

Thursday, May 25, 2017 21:18

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Last updated on May 24, 2017
The major minerals in the Martian Blueberries and Utah’s Moqui Marbles are hematite and quartz, respectively (note 1). However, sands in Bagnold Dune contain very little hematite (0.5%) and quartz (0.7%), according to http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?s=b875b7d2156c3db325c0a8b50d35289f&showtopic=7534&view=findpost&p=231938

So, Bagnold Dune is unlikely to have many Martian Blueberries or Moqui Marbles. Only ooids can be the small spheres found in Bagnold Dune, as organic carbonates may have been burned up by perchlorate on Mars (see
http://wretchfossil.blogspot.tw/2017/02/perchlorate-foiled-detection-of.html) or Curiosity rover’s CheMin instrument cannot detect organic carbonates.

Note 1: Nature journal reports: “Opportunity’s spectrometers and camera indicate that the martian haematite is pure, crystalline and grey. In contrast, the Utah concretions are mostly quartz, with brownish-black haematite cement as a secondary component. Consequently, the infrared spectrum that alerted us to haematite on Mars is unlikely to match a quartz-dominated spectrum from the Utah concretions.” Quoted from the seventh paragraph in
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v429/n6993/full/429707a.html

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