Indication of drier periods on Mars from the chemistry and mineralogy of atmospheric dust

Nature

Volumn 436, Issue 7047, 2005, Pages 62-65

  Goetz, Walter ^a   Bertelsen, Preben ^b   Binau, Charlotte S ^b   Gunnlaugsson, Haraldur P ^c   Hviid, Stubbe F ^a   Kinch, Kjartan M ^c   Madsen, Daniel E ^b   Madsen, Morten B ^b   Olsen, Malte ^b   Gellert, Ralf ^d,e   Klingelhöfer, Göstar ^e   Ming, Douglas W ^f   Morris, Richard V ^f   Rieder, Rudolf ^d   Rodionov, Daniel S ^e,g   De Souza Jr , Paulo A ^e,h   Schröder, Christian ^e   Squyres, Steve W ⁱ   Wdowiak, Tom ^j   Yen, Albert ^k  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^e JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^g Space Research Institute IKI ^*  (Russian Federation)

^h VALE S A   (Brazil)

ⁱ Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^k CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; BASALT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FLUORESCENCE; MAGNETITE; MINERALOGY; NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS; NATURAL RESOURCES EXPLORATION; OLIVINE; OXIDATION; PERMANENT MAGNETS; X RAYS;

ATMOSPHERIC DUST; DUST STORMS; MARS EXPLORATION; X-RAY FLUORESCENCE;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

FERRIC OXIDE; MINERAL; WATER; FERRIC ION; IRON; IRON DERIVATIVE; MAGNESIUM DERIVATIVE; MAGNETITE; OLIVINE; OXIDE; SILICATE;

MARS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC DUST; BASALT; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; DUST; MAGNET; MAGNETISM; MINERALOGY; MOSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY; OXIDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; X RAY FLUORESCENCE; DESERT CLIMATE; MICROCLIMATE; SPECTROMETRY;

EMMELICHTHYIDAE;

ATMOSPHERE; DESERT CLIMATE; DUST; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FERROSOFERRIC OXIDE; IRON; IRON COMPOUNDS; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; MAGNETICS; MARS; OXIDES; SILICATES; SPECTROMETRY, X-RAY EMISSION; SPECTROSCOPY, MOSSBAUER; WATER;

EID: 21844473764     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03807     Document Type: Article

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