Evidence for calcium carbonate at the mars phoenix landing site

Science

Volumn 325, Issue 5936, 2009, Pages 61-64

  Boynton, W V ^a   Ming, D W ^b   Kounaves, S P ^c   Young, S M M ^c,j   Arvidson, R E ^d   Hecht, M H ^e   Hoffman, J ^f   Niles, P B ^b   Hamara, D K ^a   Quinn, R C ^g   Smith, P H ^a   Sutter, B ^b   Catling, D C ^h,i   Morris, R V ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^g NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^j Univ of New Hampshire   (United States)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACID; BUFFER; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; WATER;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CALORIMETRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; LIQUID; MARS; PH; SOIL CHEMISTRY; WATER;

AIRPORT; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CALORIMETRY; EVOLUTION; FILM; KINETICS; LIQUID; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; SURFACE PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE;

CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON DIOXIDE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HOT TEMPERATURE; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MARS; PRECIPITATION; SPACECRAFT; WATER;

EID: 67650094639     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1172768     Document Type: Article

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