Mimos Ii on Mer - One Year of Mössbauer Spectroscopy on the Surface of Mars: from Jarosite at Meridiani Planum to Goethite at Gusev Crater
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FROM JAROSITE AT MERIDIANI PLANUM TO GOETHITE AT GUSEV CRATER. G. Klingelhöfer, D.S. Rodionov , R.V. Morris, C. Schröder, P.A. de Souza, D.W. Ming, A.S. Yen, B. Bernhardt, F. Renz, I. Fleischer, T. Wdowiak, S.W. Squyres, and the Athena Science Team. Institut für Anorganische und Analytische Chemie, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Staudinger Weg 9, D-55128 Mainz, Germany, [email protected] , NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, USA, Space Research Institute IKI, 117997 Moscow, Russia, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce (CVRD) Group, Vitoria, Brazil, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
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