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THE CHEMISTRY OF MARS Heather Tennant Earth 438 Presented March 11, 2014
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Motivation Bulk Chemical Composition Formation and evolution of the planet Initial concentrations of surface components Surface Chemistry Geologic processes throughout history Aqueous Alteration Differentiation Geochemical cycling Biological implications
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Bulk Composition Methods of estimation: Geochemical/cosmochemical models Meteorites, chondrites Isotopic Meteorites, chondrites Geophysical Bulk density, moment of inertia, Love number, radius Need for seismic data and heat flow data
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Bulk Composition
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Surface Chemistry Methods of measurement: Orbital/Remote Sensing Reflectance spectroscopy Gamma Ray Spectroscopy Neutron Spectroscopy In situ measurements Spectroscopy Imaging Meteorites
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Geochemical Mapping (Odessey GRS) 5 Geochemical Provinces
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Carbonation and Chlorination (CHRISM)
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Sulfur Cycling
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Petrochemistry of Jake_M (MAHLI,APXS) E. M. Stolper et al., Science 21 February 2014
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Chemical Analysis of Rocknest (APXS)
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2012 Meteorite - Tissint H. Chennaoui Aoudjehane Science 9 November 2012
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Future Directions Seismometers Raman Spectroscopy (MarsExo 2018) Sample Return
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