Investigation of Mineral Phase Effects (MPEs) caused by sulfur bearing minerals in the Cumberland Simulant, using laboratory equivalents of SAM, APXS, and CheMin Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) instruments.
Christine A Knudson1,2, Glynis M Perrett3, Amy McAdam4, John L Campbell5, Leanne Sargent5, Erin L. Flannigan5, Richard V Morris6, Slavka C Andrejkovicova1,7, Stanley A Mertzman8, Steven W Squyres9 and Paul R Mahaffy10, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)CRESST/University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (3)Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada, (4)NASA Goddard SFC, Greenbelt, United States, (5)University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada, (6)NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, United States, (7)CRESST, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (8)Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, United States, (9)Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY, United States, (10)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Environments Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States