Publication Date:
2006-03-27
Description:
On Mars, the Mariner observations show a twenty-fold variation in the amount of ozone, depending on the presence or absence of another minor constituent, water vapor, in the atmosphere. In the evolution of earth's primitive atmosphere, the formation of an ozone layer may have played an important role in the prebiotic chemistry that took place on the surface. The seasonal formation and disappearance of ozone in the contemporary Martian atmosphere may be of consequence in any prebiotic chemistry that may be occurring there.
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INSTRUMENTATION AND PHOTOGRAPHY
Type:
JPL Mariner Mars 1971 Proj., Vol. 4; p 369-372
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