Planetary Mass Spectrometry for Agnostic Life Detection in the Solar System

Planetary Mass Spectrometry for Agnostic Life Detection in the Solar System

For the past fifty years of space exploration, mass spectrometry has provided unique chemical and physical insights on the characteristics of other planetary bodies in the Solar System. A variety of mass spectrometer types, including magnetic sector, quadrupole, time-of-flight, and ion trap, have an...

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Main Authors: Luoth Chou, Paul Mahaffy, Melissa Trainer, Jennifer Eigenbrode, Ricardo Arevalo, William Brinckerhoff, Stephanie Getty, Natalie Grefenstette, Victoria Da Poian, G. Matthew Fricke, Christopher P. Kempes, Jeffrey Marlow, Barbara Sherwood Lollar, Heather Graham, Sarah Stewart Johnson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Subjects:
mass spectrometry
life detection
agnostic biosignatures
planetary exploration
astrobiology
Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2021.755100/full

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