Research Article

Testing Correspondence between Areas with Hydrated Minerals, as Observed by CRISM/MRO, and Spots of Enhanced Subsurface Water Content, as Found by DAN along the Traverse of Curiosity

Table 2

Comparison of parameters of WEH distributions for groups of CRISM pixels. WEH is derived from the DAN passive data for the case of short-range variability of AEC mass fraction (SR case).

Groups of CRISM pixelsCoverage of the traverse (%)Number of CRISM pixelsNumber of DAN measurementsMean of the WEH distribution (wt%)Variance of the WEH distributionχ2 for Pearson criteria-level for Pearson criteria

Reference distribution8183154672.64 ± 0.020.30
Phyllosilicates5512932.57 ± 0.060.1718.460.001
Monohydrated sulfates4453072.37 ± 0.090.3311.040.051
Polyhydrated sulfatesAll101016383.06 ± 0.060.31129.223.48 × 10−26
Of “high intensity”5503123.10 ± 0.060.1872.745.99 × 10−15
Of “low intensity”5513262.75 ± 0.050.149.330.156