Missions to Mars: Characterisation of Mars analogue rocks for the International Space Analogue Rockstore (ISAR)

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 82-83, Issue , 2013, Pages 113-127

  Bost, Nicolas ^a,b,c   Westall, Frances ^a   Ramboz, Claire ^b,c   Foucher, Frédéric ^a   Pullan, Derek ^d   Meunier, Alain ^e   Petit, Sabine ^e   Fleischer, Iris ^f   Klingelhöfer, Göstar ^f   Vago, Jorge L ^g  

^a CENTRE DE BIOPHYSIQUE MOLÉCULAIRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^c UMR 7327   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^f JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^g EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; Database; Experimental techniques; Mars; Mineralogy

Indexed keywords

ENERGY DISPERSIVE X-RAY SPECTROSCOPY; EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES; EXTRATERRESTRIAL BODIES; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA-ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; INSTRUMENT PERFORMANCE; MARS; MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY; TESTING AND CALIBRATING INSTRUMENTS;

ASTROBIOLOGY; ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DATABASE SYSTEMS; ENERGY DISPERSIVE SPECTROSCOPY; EXPERIMENTAL MINERALOGY; INDUCTIVELY COUPLED PLASMA MASS SPECTROMETRY; INSTRUMENT TESTING; INSTRUMENTS; IRON ANALYSIS; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; NASA; OPTICAL MICROSCOPY; SPECTROMETRY;

SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 84878575200     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2013.04.006     Document Type: Article

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