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Mars Express is operated by ESA/ESOC. Laboratory reflectance data used in this paper are provided through cooperation between the OMEGA team and NASA and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) team. Reflectance measurements were acquired at the NASA Reflectance Experiment Laboratory (RELAB) at Brown University.

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  1. Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale, Université Paris-Sud and CNRS (UMR 8617), F-91405, Orsay, France
    F. Poulet, J.-P. Bibring, Y. Langevin, B. Gondet & C. Gomez
  2. Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 02912, USA
    J. F. Mustard & A. Gendrin
  3. Interactions et Dynamique des Environnements de Surface, F-91405, Orsay, France
    N. Mangold
  4. Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University, Missouri, 63130, St Louis, USA
    R. E. Arvidson
  5. IAS, Université Paris-Sud, F-91405, France
    M. Berthé, J.-P. Bibring, Y. Langevin, S. Erard, O. Forni, A. Gendrin, B. Gondet, N. Manaud, F. Poulet, G. Poulleau & A. Soufflot
  6. LESIA, Observatoire de Paris/Meudon, 92195, Meudon, France
    M. Combes, P. Drossart, T. Encrenaz, T. Fouchet & R. Melchiorri
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    G. Bellucci, F. Altieri, V. Formisano, S. Fonti, F. Capaccioni, P. Cerroni & A. Coradini
  8. Space Research Institute (IKI), 117997, 84/32 Profsoyuznaya Str, Moscow, Russia
    O. Korablev, V. Kottsov, N. Ignatiev, D. Titov & L. Zasova
  9. IDES, Université Paris-Sud, F-91405, Orsay, France
    N. Mangold
  10. Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, 31000, Toulouse, France
    P. Pinet
  11. Laboratoire de Planétologie, 38400, Toulouse, France
    B. Schmitt
  12. Planétologie, Université de Nantes, 44322, Nantes, France
    C. Sotin
  13. DLR, Berlin, 12489, Germany
    E. Hauber, H. Hoffmann & R. Jaumann
  14. MPAE, Lindau, Germany
    U. Keller
  15. Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University, Missouri, 63130, Saint-Louis, USA
    R. Arvidson
  16. Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, 02912, USA
    J. Mustard
  17. LMD, Université de Paris 6, 75252, Paris, France
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  1. F. Poulet
  2. J.-P. Bibring
  3. J. F. Mustard
  4. A. Gendrin
  5. N. Mangold
  6. Y. Langevin
  7. R. E. Arvidson
  8. B. Gondet
  9. C. Gomez

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Poulet, F., Bibring, JP., Mustard, J. et al. Phyllosilicates on Mars and implications for early martian climate.Nature 438, 623–627 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature04274

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