Abundance and Isotopic Composition of Gases in the Martian Atmosphere from the Curiosity Rover
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- Paul R. Mahaffy
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.
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- Christopher R. Webster
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA.
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- Sushil K. Atreya
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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- Heather Franz
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.
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- Michael Wong
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
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- Pamela G. Conrad
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.
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- Dan Harpold
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.
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- John J. Jones
- NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, USA.
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- Laurie A. Leshin
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA.
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- Heidi Manning
- Concordia College, Moorhead, MN 56562, USA.
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- Tobias Owen
- University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
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- Robert O. Pepin
- University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
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- Steven Squyres
- Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.
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- Melissa Trainer
- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.
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<jats:title>Mars' Atmosphere from Curiosity</jats:title> <jats:p> The Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument on the Curiosity rover that landed on Mars in August last year is designed to study the chemical and isotopic composition of the martian atmosphere. <jats:bold> Mahaffy <jats:italic>et al.</jats:italic> </jats:bold> (p. <jats:related-article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="doi" issue="6143" page="263" related-article-type="in-this-issue" vol="341" xlink:href="10.1126/science.1237966">263</jats:related-article> ) present volume-mixing ratios of Mars' five major atmospheric constituents (CO <jats:sub>2</jats:sub> , Ar, N <jats:sub>2</jats:sub> , O <jats:sub>2</jats:sub> , and CO) and isotope measurements of <jats:sup>40</jats:sup> Ar/ <jats:sup>36</jats:sup> Ar and C and O in CO <jats:sub>2</jats:sub> , based on data from one of SAM's instruments, obtained between 31 August and 21 November 2012. <jats:bold> Webster <jats:italic>et al.</jats:italic> </jats:bold> (p. <jats:related-article xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="doi" issue="6143" page="260" related-article-type="in-this-issue" vol="341" xlink:href="10.1126/science.1237961">260</jats:related-article> ) used data from another of SAM's instruments obtained around the same period to determine isotope ratios of H, C, and O in atmospheric CO <jats:sub>2</jats:sub> and H <jats:sub>2</jats:sub> O. Agreement between the isotopic ratios measured by SAM with those of martian meteorites, measured in laboratories on Earth, confirms the origin of these meteorites and implies that the current atmospheric reservoirs of CO <jats:sub>2</jats:sub> and H <jats:sub>2</jats:sub> O were largely established after the period of early atmospheric loss some 4 billion years ago. </jats:p>
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- Science
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Science 341 (6143), 263-266, 2013-07-19
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)