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Role of the Tenax® adsorbent in the interpretation of the EGA and GC‐MS analyses performed with the Sample Analysis at Mars in Gale crater
Arnaud Buch
1
Imène Belmahdi
1
Cyril Szopa
2
Caroline Freissinet
2
Daniel P. Glavin
3
Maeva Millan
3
Roger Summons
4
David Coscia
2
Samuel Teinturier
3
Jean-Yves Bonnet
5
Yuanyuan He
1
Michel Cabane
2
Rafael Navarro‐gonzalez
6
C. A. Malespin
3
Jennifer Stern
3
Jennifer Eigenbrode
3
Paul R. Mahaffy
3
S. S. Johnson
7
Arnaud Buch 1
Author
Imène Belmahdi 1
Author
Cyril Szopa 2
Author IdHAL : cyril-szopa ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0090-4056
Caroline Freissinet 2
Author IdHAL : caroline-freissinet ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6528-330X
Rafael Navarro‐gonzalez 6
Author
C. A. Malespin 3
Author
Jennifer Stern 3
Author
Jennifer Eigenbrode 3
Author
Paul R. Mahaffy 3
Author
S. S. Johnson 7
Author
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LGPM - Laboratoire de Génie des Procédés et Matériaux - EA 4038 (CentraleSupélec - Bâtiment Eiffel - 3 rue Joliot Curie 91190 GIF-SUR-YVETTE - France)
- CentraleSupélec (3, rue Joliot Curie, Plateau de Moulon, 91192 GIF-SUR-YVETTE Cedex - France)
2
PLANETO - LATMOS (France)
- LATMOS - Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (11 boulevard d'Alembert
Quartier des Garennes
78280 - Guyancourt - France)
- SU - Sorbonne Université : UMR8190 (21 rue de l’École de médecine - 75006 Paris - France)
- UVSQ - Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines : UMR8190 (55 avenue de Paris - 78035 Versailles cedex - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR8190 (France)
- INSU - CNRS - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers : UMR8190 (INSU-CNRS 3 rue Michel-Ange, 75794 Paris Cedex 16 - France)
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GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (Greenbelt, MD 20771 - United States)
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EAPS - Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences [MIT, Cambridge] (Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 - United States)
- MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 - United States)
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LATMOS - Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (11 boulevard d'Alembert
Quartier des Garennes
78280 - Guyancourt - France)
- SU - Sorbonne Université : UMR8190 (21 rue de l’École de médecine - 75006 Paris - France)
- UVSQ - Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines : UMR8190 (55 avenue de Paris - 78035 Versailles cedex - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR8190 (France)
- INSU - CNRS - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers : UMR8190 (INSU-CNRS 3 rue Michel-Ange, 75794 Paris Cedex 16 - France)
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Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares [Mexico] (04510 Ciudad de México, CDMX, Mexique - Mexico)
7
GU - Georgetown University [Washington] ( 37th and O Streets, N.W., Washington D.C. 20057 - United States)
Abstract : The Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) experiment on the NASA Curiosity rover seeks evidence of organic compounds on the surface of Mars. Since the beginning of the mission, various organic molecules have been detected and identified. While several have been demonstrated to be indigenous to the Martian soil and rocks analyzed, others appear to have been produced from sources internal to the experiment.
The objective of this study is to build an exhaustive molecular database to support the interpretation of SAM results by identifying all the chemical species produced from Tenax® adsorbents, by determining: (1) the thermal degradation byproducts of Tenax®, (2) the effect of Tenax® conditioning on the formation of Tenax® byproducts, (3) the impact of MTBSTFA or a mixture of MTBSTFA and DMF on Tenax® decomposition, and (4) the reaction between Tenax® and calcium perchlorate.
Our results indicate that the by‐products of the SAM trap are due to the impact of trap heating, the impact of the derivatization reagent (MTBSTFA) and the presence of perchlorate in Martian soil. Some of these by‐products are observed in the SAM gas chromatograph mass spectrometer (GCMS) data from Mars.
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Arnaud Buch, Imène Belmahdi, Cyril Szopa, Caroline Freissinet, Daniel P. Glavin, et al.. Role of the Tenax® adsorbent in the interpretation of the EGA and GC‐MS analyses performed with the Sample Analysis at Mars in Gale crater. Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets, Wiley-Blackwell, 2019, 124 (11), pp.2819-2851. ⟨10.1029/2019JE005973⟩. ⟨insu-02311531⟩
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