The Mars Science Laboratory organic check material

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 170, Issue 1-4, 2012, Pages 479-501

  Conrad, Pamela G ^a   Eigenbrode, Jennifer L ^a   Von Der Heydt, Max O ^b   Mogensen, Claus T ^b,c   Canham, John ^d   Harpold, Dan N ^a   Johnson, Joel ^b   Errigo, Therese ^a   Glavin, Daniel P ^a   Mahaffy, Paul R ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Grundfos DK AS   (Denmark)

^d NORTHROP GRUMMAN CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Contamination; Mars; Mars science laboratory; MSL; OCM; Organic check material; SAM; Sample chain

Indexed keywords

MARS; MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY; MSL; OCM; SAM;

CONTAMINATION; HYDROCARBONS; ROCK DRILLING;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84866742241     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-012-9893-1     Document Type: Article

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