The Urey instrument: An advanced in situ organic and oxidant detector for mars exploration

Astrobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 583-595

  Aubrey, Andrew D ^a   Chalmers, John H ^b   Bada, Jeffrey L ^b   Grunthaner, Frank J ^a   Amashukeli, Xenia ^a   Willis, Peter ^a   Skelley, Alison M ^c   Mathies, Richard A ^d   Quinn, Richard C ^e   Zent, Aaron P ^f   Ehrenfreund, Pascale ^g   Amundson, Ron ^d   Glavin, Daniel P ^h   Botta, Oliver ⁱ   Barron, Laurence ^j   Blaney, Diana L ^a   Clark, Benton C ^k   Coleman, Max ^a   Hofmann, Beda A ^l   Josset, Jean Luc ^m   Rettberg, Petra ⁿ   Ride, Sally ^o   Robert, François ^p   Sephton, Mark A ^q   Yen, Albert ^a   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^g LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^h NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ INTERNATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^j UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^k LOCKHEED MARTIN SPACE SYSTEMS COMPANY   (United States)

^l NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM DER BURGERGEMEINDE BERN   (Switzerland)

^m SPACE X Exploration Institute ^*  (Switzerland)

ⁿ Institute of Aerospace Medicine   (Germany)

^o Imaginary Lines   (United States)

^p MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^q IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

Atacama Desert; Biosignatures; In situ measurement Mars Extraterrestrial life

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; FLUORESCAMINE; ORGANIC COMPOUND; OXIDIZING AGENT;

ASTRONOMY; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CHEMISTRY; CONFERENCE PAPER; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROCHIP ANALYSIS; MICROCLIMATE; SPACE FLIGHT; STEREOISOMERISM;

AMINO ACIDS; ELECTROPHORESIS, CAPILLARY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; FLUORESCAMINE; MARS; MICROCHIP ANALYTICAL PROCEDURES; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; OXIDANTS; SPACE FLIGHT; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 48849105892     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2007.0169     Document Type: Conference Paper

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