From SAM Instrument Background to Martian Signal: Challenges of Solid Sample Analyses on Mars
Résumé
Taken togeth
er, these results indicate
that the internal SAM sources
create
a background that
challenge
s
the analysis of solid samples
in search for
organics
, cr
eating interferences between terrestrial and
possible indigenous carbon sources.
We have be
en
exploring the possibility of SAM
-
derived C
contributions
to
chlorohydrocarbon
generation.
Current observations pro
vide no direct link between
SAM internal sources
and the chlorohydrocarbons
detected on Mars, thus a
martian organic contribution
to
the
c
hloromethanes,
dichloroalkanes
and
chlorobenzene detected at CB
is possible
.
Domaines
Planétologie
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