Coordinated analyses of Antarctic sediments as Mars analog materials using reflectance spectroscopy and current flight-like instruments for CheMin, SAM and MOMA

Icarus

Volumn 224, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 309-325

  Bishop, Janice L ^a,b   Franz, Heather B ^c,d   Goetz, Walter ^e   Blake, David F ^b   Freissinet, Caroline ^c,d   Steininger, Harald ^e   Goesmann, Fred ^e   Brinckerhoff, William B ^c   Getty, Stephanie ^c   Pinnick, Veronica T ^c,d   Mahaffy, Paul R ^c   Dyar, M Darby ^f  

^a SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^f MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Mars, surface; Mineralogy; Organic chemistry; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878250922     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.05.014     Document Type: Article

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