Performing mineral hydration experiments in the CheMin diffractometer on Mars
David T Vaniman1, Albert S Yen2, Elizabeth B Rampe3, David Frederick Blake4, Steve Chipera5, John Morookian2, Douglas W Ming3, Thomas Bristow6, Richard V Morris3, Ralf Gellert7, Shaunna M Morrison8, John P Grotzinger9, Cherie Achilles10, Robert T Downs11, William Rapin12, Pierre-Yves Meslin13, Melissa S Rice14, Allan H Treiman15, Philippe Sarrazin16 and Jack D Farmer17, (1)Planetary Science Institute Tucson, Tucson, AZ, United States, (2)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (3)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (4)NASA Ames Research Center, Exobiology Branch, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (5)Chesapeake Energy, Oklahoma City, OK, United States, (6)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, United States, (7)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (8)Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Washington, United States, (9)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (10)University of Arizona, Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (11)University of Arizona, Department of Geosciences, Tucson, AZ, United States, (12)Universite de Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex 4, France, (13)IRAP, Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France, (14)Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, United States, (15)Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX, United States, (16)SETI Institute Mountain View, Mountain View, CA, United States, (17)Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States
