Measuring Electrical Conductivity to Study the Formation of Brines Under Martian Conditions

• Published in: Journal of Visualized Experiments
• Main Authors: Nazarious, Miracle Israel, AU - Ramachandran, Abhilash Vakkada, Zorzano, Maria-Paz, Martin-Torres, Javier
• Other Authors: University of Aberdeen.Planetary Sciences
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Chemistry; Salts; Deliquescence; Brine formation; Electrical conductivity; Mars simulation; HABIT; SpaceQ chamber; Calibration; ExoMars 2022; Mars exploration; Luleå
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2164/16909; https://doi.org/10.3791/61217

Acknowledgments The HABIT Engineering Qualification Model (EQM) that was used for the experiments was fabricated by Omnisys, Sweden, as part of the HABIT project development, under the supervision of MPZ and JMT, and funded by the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA). HABIT and BOTTLE are the original ideas of MPZ and JMT. SpaceQ Mars simulation chamber is a Luleå University of Technology facility situated in Luleå, Sweden. The Kempe Foundation funded the design and fabrication of the SpaceQ chamber. The SpaceQ chamber was manufactured by Kurt J. Lesker Company, U.K., under the supervision of MPZ. MPZ has been partially funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) Project No. MDM-2017-0737 Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu”- Centro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC) and by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (PID2019-104205GB-C21). AVR and JMT acknowledge support from the Wallenberg Foundation. Peer reviewed