The radiation assessment detector (RAD) investigation

DM Hassler, C Zeitlin, RF Wimmer-Schweingruber… - Space science …, 2012 - Springer
Abstract The Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)
is an energetic particle detector designed to measure a broad spectrum of energetic particle …

Outgassing history and escape of the Martian atmosphere and water inventory

H Lammer, E Chassefière, Ö Karatekin… - Space Science …, 2013 - Springer
The evolution and escape of the martian atmosphere and the planet's water inventory can
be separated into an early and late evolutionary epoch. The first epoch started from the …

Evolved gas analyses of sedimentary rocks and eolian sediment in Gale Crater, Mars: Results of the Curiosity rover's sample analysis at Mars instrument from …

B Sutter, AC Mcadam, PR Mahaffy… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The sample analysis at Mars instrument evolved gas analyzer (SAM‐EGA) has detected
evolved water, H2, SO2, H2S, NO, CO2, CO, O2, and HCl from two eolian sediments and …

Atmospheric escape processes and planetary atmospheric evolution

G Gronoff, P Arras, S Baraka, JM Bell… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The habitability of the surface of any planet is determined by a complex evolution of its
interior, surface, and atmosphere. The electromagnetic and particle radiation of stars drive …

Carbonate detection with SuperCam in igneous rocks on the floor of Jezero crater, Mars

E Clavé, K Benzerara, PY Meslin… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Perseverance explored two geological units on the floor of Jezero Crater over the first 420
Martian days of the Mars2020 mission. These units, the Máaz and Séítah formations, are …

Orbital evidence for more widespread carbonate‐bearing rocks on Mars

JJ Wray, SL Murchie, JL Bishop… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Carbonates are key minerals for understanding ancient Martian environments because they
are indicators of potentially habitable, neutral‐to‐alkaline water and may be an important …

Stability and exchange of subsurface ice on Mars

N Schorghofer, O Aharonson - Journal of Geophysical …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
We seek a better understanding of the distribution of subsurface ice on Mars, based on the
physical processes governing the exchange of vapor between the atmosphere and the …

Tracing the fate of carbon and the atmospheric evolution of Mars

R Hu, DM Kass, BL Ehlmann, YL Yung - Nature communications, 2015 - nature.com
The climate of Mars likely evolved from a warmer, wetter early state to the cold, arid current
state. However, no solutions for this evolution have previously been found to satisfy the …

Mineralogy and evolution of the surface of Mars: a review

V Chevrier, PE Mathé - Planetary and Space Science, 2007 - Elsevier
We review the mineralogy of the surface of Mars, using data from various sources, including
in situ characterisations performed by landers, remote observations from orbit, and studies of …

The limitations on organic detection in Mars-like soils by thermal volatilization–gas chromatography–MS and their implications for the Viking results

R Navarro-González, KF Navarro… - Proceedings of the …, 2006 - National Acad Sciences
The failure of Viking Lander thermal volatilization (TV)(without or with thermal degradation)–
gas chromatography (GC)–MS experiments to detect organics suggests chemical rather …