The PROCESS experiment: Amino and carboxylic acids under mars-like surface UV radiation conditions in low-earth orbit

Astrobiology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 436-444

  Noblet, Audrey ^a   Stalport, Fabien ^a   Guan, Yuan Yong ^a   Poch, Olivier ^a   Coll, Patrice ^a   Szopa, Cyril ^b   Cloix, Mégane ^a   MacAri, Frédérique ^a   Raulin, Francois ^a   Chaput, Didier ^c   Cottin, Hervé ^a  

^a INSTITUT PIERRE SIMON LAPLACE   (France)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c Centre National d'Itudes Spatiales   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CARBOXYLIC ACID;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMISTRY; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; MICROCLIMATE; SPACE FLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

AMINO ACIDS; CARBOXYLIC ACIDS; EARTH (PLANET); ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; MARS; SPACE FLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

EID: 84862014468     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2011.0756     Document Type: Article

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