The limitations on organic detection in Mars-like soils by thermal volatilization-gas chromatography-MS and their implications for the Viking results.

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Published in Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A on October 23, 2006

Authors

Rafael Navarro-González1, Karina F Navarro, José de la Rosa, Enrique Iñiguez, Paola Molina, Luis D Miranda, Pedro Morales, Edith Cienfuegos, Patrice Coll, François Raulin, Ricardo Amils, Christopher P McKay

Author Affiliations

1: Laboratorio de Química de Plasmas y Estudios Planetarios, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior, Ciudad Universitaria, P.O. Box 70-543, 04510 México D.F., Mexico. navarro@nucleares.unam.mx

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