Nature Communications (Jun 2019)

Record of low-temperature aqueous alteration of Martian zircon during the late Amazonian

  • Martin Guitreau,
  • Jessica Flahaut

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10382-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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When liquid water was present on Mars is still debated. The authors here date the age of aqueous alteration experienced by zircons from a Martian meteorite and show that liquid water was present on Mars during the Late Amazonian, thus, in a recent past.