All the "gory" details on the Jezero margin unit 😉

Jones et al: "Stratigraphy of Carbonate-Bearing Rocks at the Margin of Jezero Crater: Evidence for Shoreline Processes?"
https://doi.org/10.1029/2025JE009111

#JezeroMarginUnit #JezeroDeltaScience #JezeroRimScience

There's also a reference to a new paper on the margin unit, with an excellent sketch of its proposed formation and alteration.

Williford et al : "Carbonated ultramafic igneous rocks in Jezero crater"
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adu8264

#JezeroDeltaScience #JezeroRimScience #JezeroMarginUnit

@tildalwave
Thanks for the comment. Indeed that seems to have been the case with a number of similar features elsewhere on Mars. The reason I mention water and thermal springs though is because it's mentioned frequently in papers as having played a role in shaping rocks and terrain inside and around Jezero Crater.

@sharponlooker's curated hashtag #JezeroRimScience has been very helpful in collecting papers about the subject and is worth having a look.

Preliminary statigraphy of #WitchHazelHill, now with in-situ #PerseveranceRover observations (compare to orbital ones https://mastodon.social/@sharponlooker/114002684721968753)

Barnes et al: "Pre-impact stratigraphy exposed in the western Jezero crater rim"
https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc-dps2025-1618

#JezeroRimScience #JezeroRimSpherules

A month-old open access #JezeroRimScience paper.

Cuevas-Quiñones et al: "Evidence for a composite volcano on the rim of Jezero crater on Mars"
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-025-02329-7

Peer-reviewed, open access version of the above (post nr 11)

Beck et al : "From hydrated silica to quartz: Potential hydrothermal precipitates found in Jezero crater"
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2025.119256

h/t @IRAP https://astrodon.social/@IRAP/114104072968014180

#JezeroRimScience #JezeroDeltaScience #JezeroBrightRocks

Poster on very preliminary RIMFAX analysis of the Crater Rim campaing.

Cardarelli et al: "RIMFAX Ground Penetrating Radar Observations of Subsurface Structures in the Crater Rim of Jezero"
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2025/pdf/2888.pdf

🧵 19/n

#JezeroRimScience

Poster for a new iteration of analysis of light-toned float rocks, and a suggested formation scenario. #spinel #kaolinite

Royer et al : "Mineral Diversity of Light-Toned Float Rocks in Jezero Crater as Seen by SuperCam"
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2025/pdf/1872.pdf

🧵 18/n

#JezeroDeltaScience #JezeroRimScience #JezeroBrightRocks

[EDIT]: final paper at https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01837-2

Poster on #FreyaCastle / "zebra rock". Not sure if we can see which one is #KautzCreek without the #PDSAnalystNotebook perhaps.

Klidaras et al: "The Enigma of "Zebra Rock": A Banded Rock Discovered on the Jezero Crater Rim"
https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2025/pdf/2014.pdf

"Gaze through ancient lines / Secrets buried deep in time / Zebra stripes of Mars."

🧵 17/n

#JezeroRimScience #JezeroBrightRocks