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news
47 news outlets
blogs
8 blogs
policy
1 policy source
twitter
67 tweeters
wikipedia
15 Wikipedia pages
googleplus
2 Google+ users
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1 video uploader

Citations

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348 Mendeley
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Title
Deposition, exhumation, and paleoclimate of an ancient lake deposit, Gale crater, Mars
Published in
Science, October 2015
DOI 10.1126/science.aac7575
Pubmed ID
26450214
Authors

J. P. Grotzinger, S. Gupta, M. C. Malin, D. M. Rubin, J. Schieber, K. Siebach, D. Y. Sumner, K. M. Stack, A. R. Vasavada, R. E. Arvidson, F. Calef, L. Edgar, W. F. Fischer, J. A. Grant, J. Griffes, L. C. Kah, M. P. Lamb, K. W. Lewis, N. Mangold, M. E. Minitti, M. Palucis, M. Rice, R. M. E. Williams, R. A. Yingst, D. Blake, D. Blaney, P. Conrad, J. Crisp, W. E. Dietrich, G. Dromart, K. S. Edgett, R. C. Ewing, R. Gellert, J. A. Hurowitz, G. Kocurek, P. Mahaffy, M. J. McBride, S. M. McLennan, M. Mischna, D. Ming, R. Milliken, H. Newsom, D. Oehler, T. J. Parker, D. Vaniman, R. C. Wiens, S. A. Wilson

Abstract

The landforms of northern Gale crater on Mars expose thick sequences of sedimentary rocks. Based on images obtained by the Curiosity rover, we interpret these outcrops as evidence for past fluvial, deltaic, and lacustrine environments. Degradation of the crater wall and rim probably supplied these sediments, which advanced inward from the wall, infilling both the crater and an internal lake basin to a thickness of at least 75 meters. This intracrater lake system probably existed intermittently for thousands to millions of years, implying a relatively wet climate that supplied moisture to the crater rim and transported sediment via streams into the lake basin. The deposits in Gale crater were then exhumed, probably by wind-driven erosion, creating Aeolis Mons (Mount Sharp).

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 4 1%
Canada 2 <1%
Germany 1 <1%
Slovenia 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Estonia 1 <1%
Unknown 337 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 91 26%
Researcher 54 16%
Student > Master 51 15%
Student > Bachelor 38 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 14 4%
Other 48 14%
Unknown 52 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 194 56%
Physics and Astronomy 39 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 4%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 11 3%
Environmental Science 9 3%
Other 21 6%
Unknown 60 17%

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 482. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 February 2022.
All research outputs
#46,281
of 23,294,050 outputs
Outputs from Science
#1,942
of 78,378 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#552
of 279,857 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#24
of 1,246 outputs
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