Visible-near infrared point spectrometry of drill core samples from Río Tinto, Spain: Results from the 2005 Mars Astrobiology Research and Technology Experiment (MARTE) drilling exercise

Astrobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1049-1060

  Sutter, Brad ^a,c,d   Brown, Adrian J ^a,b   Stoker, Carol R ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^d JACOBS TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Drilling; Infrared; Iron oxides; Jarosite; Mars; Phyllosilicates; R o Tinto

Indexed keywords

FERRIC HYDROXIDE; FERRIC ION; FERRIC OXIDE; IRON DERIVATIVE; MINERAL;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; GEOGRAPHY; LABORATORY; METHODOLOGY; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; RESEARCH; SEDIMENT; SPAIN; TECHNOLOGY;

ABSORPTION; EXOBIOLOGY; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IRON COMPOUNDS; LABORATORIES; MARS; MINERALS; RESEARCH; SPAIN; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 58049105005     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2007.0146     Document Type: Article

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