What lurks in the martian rocks and soil Investigations of sulfates, phosphates, and perchlorates. Multivariate analysis of raman spectra for the identification of sulfates: Implications for ExoMars

American Mineralogist

Volumn 99, Issue 8-9, 2014, Pages 1570-1579

  Lopez Reyes, Guillermo ^a   Sobron, Pablo ^b,c,d   Lefebvre, Catherine ^b   Rull, Fernando ^a  

^a CENTRO DE ASTROBIOLOGÍA CSIC INTA   (Spain)

^b CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

^c MalaUva Labs   (United States)

^d SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

ExoMars; multivariate analysis; qualitative; quantitative; Raman spectroscopy; Sulfates

Indexed keywords

BINARY MIXTURES; CALIBRATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAGNESIUM COMPOUNDS; NEURAL NETWORKS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SODIUM COMPOUNDS; SPECTROMETERS; SULFATE MINERALS;

EXOMARS; MULTI VARIATE ANALYSIS; QUALITATIVE; QUANTITATIVE; SULFATES;

MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

MARS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERCHLORATE; PHOSPHATE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SULFATE;

EID: 84906992003     PISSN: 0003004X     EISSN: 19453027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2138/am.2014.4724     Document Type: Article

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