SAM and the organic matter in Gale Crater, Mars – Inventory and implications


Caroline Freissinet1, Daniel Patrick Glavin2, Cyril Szopa3, Arnaud Buch4, Jennifer L Eigenbrode5, Maëva Millan6, Brad Sutter7, Samuel Teinturier5, Charles Malespin8, Melissa Guzman9, Andrew Steele10, Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez11, Dawn Y Sumner12, Paul R Mahaffy13 and SAM and MSL science teams, (1)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Solar System Exploration Division, Greenbelt, United States, (3)Université Versailles St-Quentin, Sorbonne Universités, UPMC Univ. Paris 06, CNRS, LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris, France, (4)CentraleSupelec - Paris-Saclay University, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (6)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Guyancourt, France, (7)Amentum, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (9)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales/UVSQ, UPMC, CNRS, Guyancourt, France, (10)Carnegie Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Washington, United States, (11)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Mexico City, DF, Mexico, (12)University of California, Davis, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Davis, United States, (13)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Environments Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States