Using electrical impedance spectroscopy to detect water in planetary regoliths

Astrobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 781-792

  Seshadri, Suresh ^a   Chin, Keith B ^a   Buehler, Martin G ^b   Anderson, Robert C ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Decagon Devices Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Ice; In situ measurement; Liquid water; Planetary instrumentation; Salts

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE; ICE; WATER;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOLOGY; CALIBRATION; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HYDROGEN BOND; IMPEDANCE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

CALIBRATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODES; ELECTROLYTES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXOBIOLOGY; HYDROGEN BONDING; ICE; PLANETS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS; WATER;

EID: 54049089689     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2007.0180     Document Type: Article

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