Ultraviolet photolysis of amino acids on the surface of icy Solar System bodies

Icarus

Volumn 221, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 800-805

  Johnson, Paul V ^a,b   Hodyss, Robert ^a,b   Chernow, Victoria F ^a   Lipscomb, Dawn M ^a   Goguen, Jay D ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA Astrobiology Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Exobiology; Ices; Ices, IR spectroscopy; Photochemistry; Satellites, Surfaces

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867378254     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.09.005     Document Type: Article

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