Science priorities for Mars sample return

Astrobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 489-535

  Borg, Lars E ^b   Des Marais, David J ^a   Beaty, David W ^c   Aharonson, Oded ^d   Benner, Steven A ^d   Bogard, Donald D ^d   Bridges, John C ^d   Budney, Charles J ^d   Calvin, Wendy N ^d   Clark, Benton C ^d   Eigenbrode, Jennifer L ^d   Grady, Monica M ^d   Head, James W ^d   Hemming, Sidney R ^d   Hinners, Noel W ^d   Hipkin, Victoria ^d   MacPherson, Glenn J ^d   Marinangeli, Lucia ^d   McLennan, Scott M ^d   McSween, Harry Y ^d   Moersch, Jeffrey E ^d   Nealson, Kenneth H ^d   Pratt, Lisa M ^d   Righter, Kevin ^d   Ruff, Steve W ^d   Shearer, Charles K ^d   Steele, Andrew ^d   Sumner, Dawn Y ^d   Symes, Steven J ^d   Vago, Jorge L ^d   Westall, Frances ^d   more..

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; CHEMISTRY; METHODOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; REVIEW; SCIENCE; SPACE FLIGHT;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; MARS; SCIENCE; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 48849088529     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2008.0759     Document Type: Review

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