The Viking Carbon Assimilation Experiments: Interim Report
Abstract
A synthesis of organic matter from atmospheric carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide, or both, appears to take place in the surface material of Mars at a low rate. The synthesis appears to be thermolabile and to be inhibited by moisture.
- Publication:
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Science
- Pub Date:
- December 1976
- DOI:
- 10.1126/science.194.4271.1321
- Bibcode:
- 1976Sci...194.1321H
- Keywords:
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- Carbon Dioxide;
- Carbon Monoxide;
- Mars Surface;
- Organic Materials;
- Pyrolysis;
- Viking Lander Spacecraft;
- Assimilation;
- Atmospheric Chemistry;
- Mars Atmosphere;
- Reaction Kinetics;
- Space Environment Simulation;
- Synthesis;
- Viking Mars Program;
- Lunar and Planetary Exploration