Gas Chromatography Fingerprint of Martian Amino Acids before Analysis of Return Samples

Within the perspective of current and future space missions, detection separation building blocks such as amino acids are important subjects which becoming fundamental in search for origin life traces solar system. In this work, we have developed optimized a strategy adapted to experimentation detect presence acid-like compounds using gas chromatography coupled mass spectrometry (GC-MS). Selected derivatization methods meet instrument design constraints imposed on situ extraterrestrial experiments. Coupled fast selective extraction, GC analysis would be highly efficient organic materials. future, corresponding GC-MS TIC could facilitate simple selection sediments/dust samples onboard GC-MS-equipped rovers sample return-to-Earth missions.