The chemical composition of Martian soil and rocks returned by the mobile alpha proton X-ray spectrometer: preliminary results from the X-ray mode.

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• Publication year

  1997

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  1997-12-05

• Fields of study

  Physics, Chemistry, Geology, Environmental Science, Medicine

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  DOI 10.1126/SCIENCE.278.5344.1771PMID 9388173
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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