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

• Main Authors: McAdam, A., Mahaffy, P., Martin, M., Steele, A., Squyres, S., Brickenhoff, W., DesMarais, D., Stern, J., Summons, R., Glavin, Daniel P., Pavlov, A., Atreya, S., Buch, A., Grotzinger, J., Freissinet, Caroline, Archer, D., Eigenbrode, J., Franz, H., Malespin, C., Brunner, A., Miller, K., Ming, D., Conrad, P., Kashyap, S., Dworkin, J.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Geophysics; Yellowknife; Yellowknife Bay
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2060/20150004426

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...