Increasing our understanding of perchlorate salts during thermal decomposition and their implications for life detection on Mars


Samuel Royle1, Wren Montgomery2, Elizabeth Jaramillo3, Jonathan S Watson1, Samuel P Kounaves4 and Mark A Sephton1, (1)Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, (2)Imperial College London, Department of Earth Science & Engineering, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (3)Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, United States, (4)Tufts University, Medford, United States