Evidence for indigenous nitrogen in sedimentary and aeolian deposits from the <i>Curiosity</i> rover investigations at Gale crater, Mars
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- Jennifer C. Stern
- Solar System Exploration Division, Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Greenbelt, MD 20771;
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- Brad Sutter
- Jacobs Technology, Inc., Johnson Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Houston, TX 77058;
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- Caroline Freissinet
- NASA Postdoctoral Program, Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Greenbelt, MD 20771;
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- Rafael Navarro-González
- Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 04510 Mexico D.F., Mexico;
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- Christopher P. McKay
- Exobiology Branch, Ames Research Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Moffett Field, CA 94035;
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- P. Douglas Archer
- Jacobs Technology, Inc., Johnson Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Houston, TX 77058;
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- Arnaud Buch
- Laboratoire de Genie de Procedes et Materiaux, Ecole Centrale Paris, 92295 Chatenay-Malabry, France;
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- Anna E. Brunner
- Solar System Exploration Division, Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Greenbelt, MD 20771;
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- Patrice Coll
- Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques, Université Paris-Est Créteil, Université Paris Diderot and CNRS, 94000 Créteil, France;
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- Jennifer L. Eigenbrode
- Solar System Exploration Division, Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Greenbelt, MD 20771;
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- Alberto G. Fairen
- Centro de Astrobiologia, 28850 Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain;
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- Heather B. Franz
- Solar System Exploration Division, Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Greenbelt, MD 20771;
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- Daniel P. Glavin
- Solar System Exploration Division, Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Greenbelt, MD 20771;
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- Srishti Kashyap
- Solar System Exploration Division, Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Greenbelt, MD 20771;
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- Amy C. McAdam
- Solar System Exploration Division, Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Greenbelt, MD 20771;
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- Douglas W. Ming
- Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Directorate, Johnson Space Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Houston, TX 77058;
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- Andrew Steele
- Geophysical Laboratory, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Washington, DC 20015;
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- Cyril Szopa
- Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux et Observations Spatiales, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Université Versailles Saint-Quentin and CNRS, 75005 Paris, France;
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- James J. Wray
- School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332;
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- F. Javier Martín-Torres
- Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas–Universidad de Granada), 18100 Armilla, Granada, Spain;
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- Maria-Paz Zorzano
- Centro de Astrobiologia, 28850 Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain;
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- Pamela G. Conrad
- Solar System Exploration Division, Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Greenbelt, MD 20771;
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- Paul R. Mahaffy
- Solar System Exploration Division, Goddard Space Flight Center, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Greenbelt, MD 20771;
Abstract
<jats:title>Significance</jats:title> <jats:p>We present data supporting the presence of an indigenous source of fixed nitrogen on the surface of Mars in the form of nitrate. This fixed nitrogen may indicate the first stage in development of a primitive nitrogen cycle on the surface of ancient Mars and would have provided a biochemically accessible source of nitrogen.</jats:p>
Journal
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- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 112 (14), 4245-4250, 2015-03-23
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1362825893894601856
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- ISSN
- 10916490
- 00278424
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- Data Source
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- Crossref