Revealing the Varied Sources of Faculae-Forming Brines in Occator Crater via Surface and Sub-Surface Analyses

Jennifer E. C. Scully1, Paul Schenk2, Julie C Castillo3, Debra Buczkowski4, David A Williams5, Jan Hendrik Pasckert6, Kayla Duarte7, Vivian Romero7, Lynnae C. Quick8, Michael Sori9, Margaret E Landis10, Carol A Raymond11, Alicia Neesemann12, Britney E Schmidt13, Hanna G Sizemore14 and Christopher T Russell15, (1)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, United States, (5)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States, (6)University of Münster, Münster, Germany, (7)Georgia Institute of Technology Main Campus, Atlanta, GA, United States, (8)NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Geodynamics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (9)University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tucson, AZ, United States, (10)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (12)Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany, (13)Georgia Institute of Technology, School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Atlanta, GA, United States, (14)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (15)University of California Los Angeles, Department of Earth Planetary and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, CA, United States