Using portable Raman spectrometers for the identification of organic compounds at low temperatures and high altitudes: Exobiological applications

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1922, 2010, Pages 3109-3125

  Jehlicka, J ^a   Edwards, H G M ^b   Culka, A ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exobiology; Organics; Outdoors measurements; Raman spectrometry

Indexed keywords

ASTROBIOLOGY; MOLECULES; NASA; ORGANIC ACIDS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SPACE FLIGHT; SPECTROMETERS; SPECTROMETRY;

ANALYTICAL TOOL; EXOBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL BODIES; FIELD CONDITIONS; HIGH ALTITUDE; IN-SITU; LIFE DETECTION; LOW TEMPERATURES; MOON SURFACE; NON DESTRUCTIVE; ORGANIC MOLECULES; ORGANICS; RAMAN SPECTROMETERS; RAMAN SPECTROMETRIES; SPECTRAL FEATURE; TARGET MOLECULE; WAVENUMBER POSITION;

ORGANIC MINERALS;

ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

ALTITUDE; EARTH (PLANET); EXOBIOLOGY; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77955217012     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0075     Document Type: Article

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