Publication Date:
2004-08-07
Description:
The magnetic properties experiments are designed to help identify the magnetic minerals in the dust and rocks on Mars-and to determine whether liquid water was involved in the formation and alteration of these magnetic minerals. Almost all of the dust particles suspended in the martian atmosphere must contain ferrimagnetic minerals (such as maghemite or magnetite) in an amount of approximately 2% by weight. The most magnetic fraction of the dust appears darker than the average dust. Magnetite was detected in the first two rocks ground by Spirit.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Bertelsen, P -- Goetz, W -- Madsen, M B -- Kinch, K M -- Hviid, S F -- Knudsen, J M -- Gunnlaugsson, H P -- Merrison, J -- Nornberg, P -- Squyres, S W -- Bell, J F 3rd -- Herkenhoff, K E -- Gorevan, S -- Yen, A S -- Myrick, T -- Klingelhofer, G -- Rieder, R -- Gellert, R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 Aug 6;305(5685):827-9.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Center for Planetary Science, Danish Space Research Institute and Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics, University of Copenhagen, DK-2100 Copenhagen, Denmark. preben@fys.ku.dk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15297664" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Atmosphere
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Extraterrestrial Environment
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Ferrosoferric Oxide
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Geologic Sediments
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Iron
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*Magnetics
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*Mars
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*Minerals
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Oxides
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Water
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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