On the oxidation ability of the NASA Mars-1 soil simulant during the thermal volatilization step: Implications for the search of organics on Mars

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 21, 2009, Pages

  Iñiguez, Enrique ^b   Navarro González, Rafael ^b   De La Rosa, José ^b   Ureña Núñez, Fernando ^d   Coll, Patrice ^a   Raulin, François ^a   McKay, Christopher P ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS NUCLEARES   (Mexico)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES NUCLEARES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORBED CO; DEHYDROXYLATIONS; HYDROXYL RADICALS; IRON SPECIES; LOW LEVEL; MARTIAN SOILS; MATRIX; MELLITIC ACID; METALLIC IRON; MOLECULAR HYDROGEN; ORGANIC MOLECULES; ORGANIC ORIGIN; ORGANICS; ORGANICS ON MARS; OXYGEN ATOM; PLANETARY SCIENCE; PPB LEVELS; SILICA LAYERS; SPACE MISSIONS; THERMAL VOLATILIZATION; TWO SOURCES;

CARBON DIOXIDE; IRON COMPOUNDS; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; NASA; OXIDATION; OXYGEN; SILICA; SOILS;

CARBON MONOXIDE;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATE; HYDROXYL RADICAL; IRON; MARS; OXIDATION; PALAGONITE; PLANETARY SURFACE; VOLATILIZATION;

EID: 72049127233     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040454     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Allen, C. C., K. M. Jager, R. V. Morris, D. J. Lindstrom, M. M. Lindstrom, and J. P. Lockwood (1998), Martian soil stimulant available for scientific, educational study, Eos Trans. AGU, 79, 408-409.
2. Bada, J. L., et al. (2005), Life on Mars: New strategies to detect life on Mars, Astron. Geophys., 46, 26-6.27, doi:10.1111/j.1468-4004.2005.46626.x.
3. Benner, S. A., K. G. Devine, L. N. Matveeva, and D. H. Powell (2000), The missing organic molecules on Mars, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 97, 2425-2430, doi:10.1073/pnas.040539497.
4. Bell, J., III, R. Morris, and J. Adams (1993), Thermally altered palagonitic tephra: A spectral and process analog to the soil and dust of Mars, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 3373-3385, doi:10.1029/92JE02367.
5. Biemann, K., et al. (1977), The search for organic substances and inorganic volatile compounds in the surface of Mars, J. Geophys. Res., 82, 4641-4658, doi:10.1029/JS082i028p04641.
6. Boynton, W. V., et al. (2001), Evolved gas analyzer: Part of the Mars Volatile and Climate Surveyor integrated payload, J. Geophys. Res., 106, 17,683-17,698, doi:10.1029/1999JE001153.
7. Boynton, W. V., et al. (2009), Evidence for calcium carbonate at the Mars Phoenix landing site, Science, 325, 61-64, doi:10.1126/science.1172768.
8. Carpenter, P., L. Sebille, W. Boles, M. Chadwell, and L. Schwarz (2003), JSC Mars-1 Martian soil simulant: Melting experiments and electron microprobe studies, Microsc. Microanal., 9, 30-31, doi:10.1017/ S1431927603440701. (Pubitemid 37029577)
9. Evans-Nguyen, T., L. Becker, V. Doroshenko, and R. J. Cotter (2008), Development of a low power, high mass range mass spectrometer for Mars surface analysis, Int. J. Mass Spectrom., 278, 170-177, doi:10.1016/j.ijms.2008.09.002.
10. Flynn, G. J. (1995), The delivery of organic matter from asteroids and comets to the early surface of Mars, Earth Moon Planets, 71, 469-474. (Pubitemid 126707712)
11. Gotor, F. J., M. Macías, A. Ortega, and J. M. Criado (2000), Comparative study of the kinetics of the thermal decomposition of synthetic and natural siderite samples, Phys. Chem. Miner., 27, 495-503, doi:10.1007/ s002690000093.
12. Hecht, M. H., et al. (2009), Detection of perchlorate and the soluble chemistry of Martian soil at the Phoenix lander site, Science, 325, 64-67, doi:10.1126/science.1172466.
13. Heidbrink, J. L., J. Li, W.-P. Pan, J. L. Gooding, S. Aubuchon, J. Foreman, and J. Lundgren (1996), Distinction of nontronite from palagonite by thermal analysis and evolved-gas analysis: Application to Mars surface exploration, Thermochim. Acta, 284, 241-251, doi:10.1016/0040- 6031(96)02920-2926
14. Hoffman, J. H., R. C. Chaney, and H. Hammack (2008), Phoenix Mars mission: The thermal evolved gas analyzer, J. Am. Soc. Mass Spectrom., 19, 1377-1383, doi:10.1016/j.jasms.2008.07.015.
15. Jackson, M. L., and P. Barak (Eds.) (2005), Thermal analysis of soil minerals, in Soil Chemical Analysis: Advanced Course - A Manual of Methods Useful for Instruction and Research in Soil Chemistry, Physical Chemistry of Soils, Soil Fertility, and Soil Genesis, chap. 6, pp. 286-324, Parallel, Univ. of Wis. Madison Libr., Madison.
16. Kanavarioti, A., and R. L. Mancinelli (1990), Could organic matter have been preserved on Mars for 3.5 billion years?, Icarus, 84, 196-202, doi:10.1016/0019-1035(90)90165-6.
17. Kang, Y.-M., and B.-Z.Wan (1995), Pretreatment effect of gold/iron/zeolite- Y on carbon monoxide oxidation, Catal. Today, 26, 59-69, doi:10.1016/ 0920-5861(95)00070-V.
18. Koel, M., M. Kaljurand, and C. H. Lochmller (1997), Evolved gas analysis of inorganic materials using thermochromatography: Model inorganic salts and palagonite Martian soil simulants, Anal. Chem., 69, 4586-4591, doi:10.1021/ac970554t. (Pubitemid 127495646)
19. Mahaffy, P. R., and SAM Science Team (2005), Organics and isotopes analysis on the 2009 Mars Science Laboratory, Bull. Am. Astron. Soc., 37, 652.
20. Navarro-González, R., et al. (2006), The limitations on organic detection in Mars-like soils by thermal volatilization-gas chromatography-MS and their implications for the Viking results, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U. S. A., 103, 16,089- 16,094, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604210103. (Pubitemid 44715156)
21. Navarro-González, R., E. Iñiguez, J. de la Rosa, and C. P. McKay (2009), Characterization of organics, microorganisms, desert soils and Mars-like soils by thermal volatilization coupled to mass spectroscopy and their implications for the research of organics on Mars by Phoenix and future space missions, Astrobiology, 9(8), 703-715, doi:10.1089/ast.2008.0284.
22. 4 catalysts: Phase transformations and carbon monoxide oxidation, Appl. Catalysis A, 259, 253-259, doi:10.1016/j. apcata.2003.09.033.
23. Schulten, H. R., and P. Leinweber (1993), Pyrolysis-field ionization mass spectrometry of agricultural soils and humic substances: Effect of cropping systems and influence of the mineral matrix, Plant Soil, 151, 77-90, doi:10.1007/BF00010788.
24. 2O hypothesis for life on Mars with the TEGA instrument on the Phoenix lander, Astrobiology, 8, 205-214, doi:10.1089/ ast.2007.0216.
25. Wright, I. P., M. R. Sims, and C. T. Pillinger (2003), Scientific objectives of the Beagle 2 lander, Acta Astronaut., 52, 219- 225, doi:10.1016/S0094- 5765(02)00160-161
26. Xie, W., Z. Gao, K. Liu, W.-P. Pan, R. Vaia, D. Hunter, and A. Singh (2001), Thermal characterization of organically modified montmorillonite, Thermochim. Acta, 367-368, 339-350, doi:10.1016/S0040- 6031(00)00690-700 (Pubitemid 32224165)