Preservation of Organic Matter on Mars: The Role of the Mineral Matrix
Alberto G. Fairén1, Eva Mateo2, Cristina Robas3, Victoria Muñoz-Iglesias3, Daniel Carrizo4, Maite Fernandez-Sampedro3, Olga Prieto3, Luis Gago-Duport5, Elisabeth Losa-Adams5, Nina Lanza6, Patrick James Gasda7, Janice L Bishop8 and Carolina Gil-Lozano3, (1)Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA); and Dept. of Astronomy, Cornell University, Madrid, Spain, (2)Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), INTA-CSIC, Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, Spain, (3)Centro de Astrobiologia (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain, (4)Centro de Astrobiología (CAB), CSIC-INTA, Planetology and Habitability, Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain, (5)Universidad de Vigo, Vigo, Spain, (6)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (7)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (8)SETI Institute, Carl Sagan Center, Mountain View, United States
