A team of researchers from Freie Universität Berlin led by Anastasiia Ovchinnikova from Prof. Frank Postberg's group, published an article in Icaurs Journal on the water and sediment transport in Jezero crater on Mars, where the current NASA's Mars 2020 mission is taking place.

Researchers used flow discharge and sediment transport models and detailed geomorphological analysis to calculate minimum water and sediment transport timescales and, subsequently, the minimum volume of water available in the Jezero crater. Interpretation of results shed light on how water-related events were interconnected, how they influenced each other, and how they overlapped with each other. Highlights of the paper:

• The northern Jezero inlet took part in the first crater flooding.

• The northern inlet was active during the eastern rim breaching.

• Inlet and outlet valleys were carved by at least 2 incision events.

• Jezero deltas were deposited during the last incisions of the corresponding valleys.

• Jezero was an open-basin lake during or after the eastern rim breaching.

› Link to the paper

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