Organic carbon concentrations in 3.5-billion-year-old lacustrine mudstones of Mars

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Main Authors: Stern, Jennifer C., Malespin, Charles A., Eigenbrode, Jennifer L., Webster, Christopher R., Flesch, Greg, Franz, Heather B., Graham, Heather V., House, Christopher H., Sutter, Brad, Archer, Paul Douglas, Hofmann, Amy E., McAdam, Amy C., Ming, Douglas W., Navarro-Gonzalez, Rafael, Steele, Andrew, Freissinet, Caroline, Mahaffy, Paul R.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: National Academy of Sciences 2022
• Subjects: Physical Sciences; Yellowknife; Yellowknife Bay
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9271195/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35759667; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2201139119

The Sample Analysis at Mars instrument stepped combustion experiment on a Yellowknife Bay mudstone at Gale crater, Mars revealed the presence of organic carbon of Martian and meteoritic origins. The combustion experiment was designed to access refractory organic carbon in Mars surface sediments by h...