Origin of Chlorobenzene Detected by the Curiosity Rover in Yellowknife Bay: Evidence for Martian Organics in the Sheepbed Mudstone?

• Main Authors: Glavin, Daniel, Freissinet, Caroline, Eigenbrode, J., Miller, K., Martin, M., Summons, R., Steele, A., Franz, H., Archer, D., Brinckerhoff, W., Brunner, A., Buch, A., Cabane, Michel, Coll, Patrice, Conrad, P., Coscia, David, Dworkin, J., Grotzinger, J., Kashyap, S., Mahaffy, P., Mckay, C., Ming, D., Navarro-González, R., Sutter, B., Szopa, Cyril, Teinturier, Samuel
• Other Authors: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Catholic University of America, Carnegie Institution for Science, NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), NASA, Laboratoire de Génie des Procédés et Matériaux - EA 4038 (LGPM), CentraleSupélec, PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Interuniversitaire des Systèmes Atmosphériques (LISA (UMR_7583)), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-Université Paris-Est Créteil Val-de-Marne - Paris 12 (UPEC UP12)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México = National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2014
• Subjects: [SDU.STU.PL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Planetology; [SDU.ASTR.IM]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]/Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysic [astro-ph.IM]; Yellowknife; Yellowknife Bay
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-01815497; https://hal.science/hal-01815497/document; https://hal.science/hal-01815497/file/1157.pdf

International audience The Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument on the Curiosity rover is designed to determine the inventory of organic and inorganic vola-tiles thermally evolved from solid samples using a combination of evolved gas analysis (EGA), gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GCMS), a...