Gale Crater (Mars): 3D geo model of veins

3D Model

The Curiosity rover’s campaign in the Gale crater (Mars) provides a large set of close-up images of sedimentary outcrops displaying a variety of diagenetic features such as light-toned veins shown in the model. We reconstruct the vein network of a sample area, recorded between sols 1536 and 1545, and estimated the stress field. Assessment of the spatial distribution of light-toned veins shows that the basin materials, after burial and consolidation, experienced a sub-vertical compression and lateral extension coupled with fluid overpressure and cracking due to infilling processes.

Photogrammetric mosaic from MASTCAM images. Full dataset will be publicly available soon.

Full-text publication:

De Toffoli, B., Mangold, N., Massironi, M., Zanella, A., Pozzobon, R., Le Mouélic, S., L’Haridon, J., Cremonese, G., Structural analysis of sulfate vein networks in Gale crater (Mars), Journal of Structural Geology (2020), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsg.2020.104083

This is part of PlanMap H2020 https://planmap.eu