Searching for Martian Organics with the Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer (MOMA) aboard ExoMars-2018

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Oct 2011

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EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2011, held 2-7 October 2011 in Nantes, France. http://meetings.copernicus.org/epsc-dps2011, p.1281

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The ExoMars-2018 rover mission will likely combine both in-situ analysis of Martian subsurface material and caching of samples to be returned to Earth at a later time. The Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer (MOMA) aboard the rover will assume the important task to characterize subsurface samples in terms of their organic content and thereby support the sample selection process for caching. While previous Mars missions (Viking Landers, Phoenix) largely failed in their search for organic material on Mars, MOMA will use a modified pyrolysis technique (similar to the SAM instrument of Mars Science Laboratory, MSL) next to Laser Desorption and Ionization (LDI) coupled to a Mass Spectrometer (MS).

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