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...
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 |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2021-10-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fspas.2021.755100/full |
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