The chemical composition of martian soil and rocks returned by the mobile alpha proton x-ray spectrometer: Preliminary results from the x-ray mode

Science

Volumn 278, Issue 5344, 1997, Pages 1771-1774

  Rieder, R ^a   Economou, T ^b   Wanke H ^a   Turkevich, A ^b   Crisp, J ^c   Bruckner J ^a   Dreibus, G ^a   McSween Jr , H Y ^d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; MARS; MARTIAN ROCK; PATHFINDER MISSION; PLANETARY SURFACE;

ASTRONOMY; GEOLOGY; MATERIAL STATE; METEOROLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROCK; SOIL; SPACE FLIGHT; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; X RAY ANALYSIS;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; LONG DURATION; MARS PATHFINDER PROJECT; UNMANNED;

ALUMINUM; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IRON; MAGNESIUM; MARS; METEOROIDS; OXIDES; POTASSIUM; SILICON DIOXIDE;

EMMELICHTHYS STRUHSAKERI;

EID: 0030707623     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5344.1771     Document Type: Review

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16. A substantial portion of APXS was funded by special grants of the Max-Planck-Society, which we herewith gratefully acknowledge. Part of the work was supported by JPL contract 959825 to the University of Chicago and JPL, California Institute of Technology, under contract with NASA. We thank A. Tuzzolino, M. Perkins, E. LaRue, F. DiDonna, P. DiDonna, F. Sopron, J. Barnes, J. Greenwood, A. Gosh (USA); H. Prager, H. Kruse, J. Huth (Germany); S. Radchenko, M. Ryabinin, L. Mukhin, B. Andreichikov, B. Korchuganov, I. Akhmetchin, O. Prilutsky (Russia); R. Bloomquist, H. Kubo, T. A. Tomey, J. B. Wellman, A. Mishkin, A. Sirota, J. Matijevic, and the entire Rover Team (USA) for their contributions to the APXS success.