The missing organic molecules on Mars

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 2425-2430

  Benner, Steven A ^a   Devine, Kevin G ^a   Matveeva, Lidia N ^a   Powell, David H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; Exobiology; Organic compounds; Viking

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; OXALIC ACID;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; LONG DURATION; UNMANNED; VIKING PROJECT;

ALKANES; AMINO ACIDS; BENZENE; BIOGENESIS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; CHEMISTRY, ORGANIC; MARS; METEOROIDS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; NAPHTHALENES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; WATER;

EID: 0034646253     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.040539497     Document Type: Article

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