Martian Chlorobenzene Identified by Curiosity in Yellowknife Bay: Evidence for the Preservation of Organics in a Mudstone on Mars

• Main Authors: Steele, A., Dworkin, J., McAdam, A., Malespin, C., Pavlov, A., Eigenbrode, J., Ming, D., Brickerhoff, W., Squyres, S., Franz, H., Summons, R., Grotzinger, J., Miller, K., Mahaffy, P., Brunner, A., Atreya, S., Kashyap, S., Conrad, P., Martin, M., Archer, D., DesMarais, D., Freissinet, C., Buch, A., Glavin, D., Stern, J.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Geophysics; Yellowknife; Yellowknife Bay
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20150001959

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