Detection and Quantification of Nitrogen Compounds in the First Drilled Martian Solid Samples by the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) Instrument Suite on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL)

• Main Authors: Stern, Jennifer C., Navarro-González, Rafael, Freissinet, Caroline, Mckay, Christopher P., Archer, Paul D., Buch, A., Brunner, Anna E., Coll, Patrice, Eigenbrode, Jennifer L., Franz, Heather B., Glavin, Daniel P., Mcadam, Amy C., Ming, D., W., Steele, A., Sutter, B., Szopa, Cyril, Wray, J. J., Conrad, Pamela G., Mahaffy, Paul R.
• Other Authors: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares Mexico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México = National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), NASA Johnson Space Center (JSC), NASA, Laboratoire de Génie des Procédés et Matériaux - EA 4038 (LGPM), CentraleSupélec, 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), Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology GSFC (CRESST), Geophysical Laboratory Carnegie Institution, Carnegie Institution for Science, Ecole Centrale Paris, 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), School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Atlanta, Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2014
• Subjects: [SDU.STU.PL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Planetology; Yellowknife
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-01815583; https://hal.science/hal-01815583/document; https://hal.science/hal-01815583/file/2743.pdf

International audience The SAM instrument suite on the Curiosity Rover detected both reduced and oxidized Ni-bearing compounds at Yellowknife Bay in Gale Crater.