Re: Mars Odyssey Mineral Maps
I have some questions.
Why does the data extend to a higher latitude in the north.
What's the presumed source of potassium. Do you think it could be a K-feldspar dust from a wind abraided granite or is this evaporitic (K)salt from some saline source.
What do you make of the potassium abundance in the highlands area that is split in two by the map, some sort of aerodynamic trapping perhaps?
Also something unrelated, have you looked at the MOC images of dark streaks around Olympus Mons discussed briefly at LPSC and here a short while
ago?