Tell a friend
Print
Downs, R. T. and the MSL Science Team and DLR Collaborator (MSL Science Team), Reitz G. (2015) Determining Mineralogy on Mars with the CheMin X-Ray Diffractometer. Elements, 11 (1), pp. 45-50. GeoScienceWorld (Mineralogical Association of Canada). doi: 10.2113/gselements.11.1.45. ISSN 1811-5209.
Full text not available from this repository.
Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.2113/gselements.11.1.45
Abstract
The rover Curiosity is conducting X-ray diffraction experiments on the surface of Mars using the CheMin instrument. The analyses enable identification of the major and minor minerals, providing insight into the conditions under which the samples were formed or altered and, in turn, into past habitable environments on Mars. The CheMin instrument was developed over a twenty-year period, mainly through the efforts of scientists and engineers from NASA and DOE. Results from the first four experiments, at the Rocknest, John Klein, Cumberland, and Windjana sites, have been received and interpreted. The observed mineral assemblages are consistent with an environment hospitable to Earth-like life, if it existed on Mars.
| Item URL in elib: | https://elib.dlr.de/99570/ | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Document Type: | Article | |||||||||
| Title: | Determining Mineralogy on Mars with the CheMin X-Ray Diffractometer | |||||||||
| Authors: |
| |||||||||
| Date: | 2015 | |||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Elements | |||||||||
| Refereed publication: | Yes | |||||||||
| Open Access: | No | |||||||||
| Gold Open Access: | No | |||||||||
| In SCOPUS: | Yes | |||||||||
| In ISI Web of Science: | Yes | |||||||||
| Volume: | 11 | |||||||||
| DOI: | 10.2113/gselements.11.1.45 | |||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 45-50 | |||||||||
| Publisher: | GeoScienceWorld (Mineralogical Association of Canada) | |||||||||
| ISSN: | 1811-5209 | |||||||||
| Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Keywords: | X-ray diffraction, Mars, Gale Crater, habitable environment, CheMin, Curiosity rover | |||||||||
| HGF - Research field: | Aeronautics, Space and Transport | |||||||||
| HGF - Program: | Space | |||||||||
| HGF - Program Themes: | Space Exploration | |||||||||
| DLR - Research area: | Raumfahrt | |||||||||
| DLR - Program: | R EW - Space Exploration | |||||||||
| DLR - Research theme (Project): | R - Vorhaben MSL-Radiation (old) | |||||||||
| Location: | Köln-Porz | |||||||||
| Institutes and Institutions: | Institute of Aerospace Medicine > Radiation Biology | |||||||||
| Deposited By: | Kopp, Kerstin | |||||||||
| Deposited On: | 26 Nov 2015 15:16 | |||||||||
| Last Modified: | 10 May 2016 23:34 |
Repository Staff Only: item control page
