Mitigation of the impact of terrestrial contamination on organic measurements from the Mars Science Laboratory

Astrobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 571-582

  Ten Kate, Inge L ^a   Canham, John S ^b   Conrad, Pamela G ^c   Errigo, Therese ^a   Katz, Ira ^c   Mahaffy, Paul R ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Contamination; In situ measurements; Instrumentation; Mars; Organics

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC COMPOUND; POLYMER;

ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; HAZARDOUS WASTE; LABORATORY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; SEDIMENT; VOLATILIZATION;

ATMOSPHERE; CONTAINMENT OF BIOHAZARDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; LABORATORIES; MARS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; POLYMERS; VOLATILIZATION;

EMMELICHTHYIDAE;

EID: 48849098714     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2007.0160     Document Type: Conference Paper

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