Mineralogy at Gusev crater from the Mössbauer spectrometer on the Spirit rover

Science

Volumn 305, Issue 5685, 2004, Pages 833-836

  Morris, R V ^a   Klingelhofer G ^b   Bernhardt, B ^b   Schroder C ^b   Rodionov, D S ^b,c   De Souza Jr , P A ^b,d   Yen, A ^e   Gellert, R ^b,f   Evlanov, E N ^c   Foh, J ^b,g   Kankeleit, E ^g   Gutlich P ^b   Ming, D W ^a   Renz, F ^b   Wdowiak, T ^h   Squyres, S W ⁱ   Arvidson, R E ^j  

^a NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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

^d CVRD Group   (Brazil)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^g DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

ⁱ Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^j WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON OXIDES; MINERALOGY; MOSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY; ROCKS; SOIL TESTING;

CHEMICAL WEATHERING; GUSEV CRATER; ROCK SURFACES; SEXTETS;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

FERRIC ION; FERRIC OXIDE; FERROUS ION; MAGNETITE;

CRATER; MARS; MINERALOGY; PLANETARY SURFACE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; MINERALOGY; MOSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; STOICHIOMETRY; WEATHERING;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; FERROSOFERRIC OXIDE; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IRON; IRON COMPOUNDS; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; MARS; MINERALS; OXIDES; SILICATES; SPECTROSCOPY, MOSSBAUER;

EMMELICHTHYS STRUHSAKERI;

EID: 3843112118     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1100020     Document Type: Article

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