Search for past life on Mars: Physical and chemical characterization of minerals of biotic and abiotic origin: Part 1 - Calcite

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Stalport, Fabien ^a   Coll, Patrice ^a   Cabane, Michel ^b   Person, Alain ^c   González, Rafael Navarro ^a,d   Raulin, Francois ^a   Vaulay, Marie Jo ^e   Ausset, Patrick ^a   McKay, Chris P ^f   Szopa, Cyril ^b   Zarnecki, John ^g  

^a LABORATOIRE INTERUNIVERSITAIRE DES SYSTÈMES ATMOSPHÉRIQUES   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^f NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^g OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; BIOLOGY; CALCITE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CRYSTAL LATTICES; DEFECTS; MOLECULES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; TRACE ELEMENTS; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

ABIOTIC ORIGIN; ASTROBIOLOGY; BIOTIC ORIGIN; MARS;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

CALCITE; MARS;

EID: 31544435735     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL023403     Document Type: Article

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