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The Sample Analysis at Mars Investigation and Instrument Suite

Paul R. Mahaffy (1) , Christopher R. Webster (2) , Michel Cabane (3) , Pamela G. Conrad (1) , Patrice Coll (4) , Sushil K. Atreya (5) , Robert Arvey (1) , Michael Barciniak (1) , Mehdi Benna (1) , Lora Bleacher (1) , William B. Brinckerhoff (1) , Jennifer L. Eigenbrode (1) , Daniel Carignan (1) , Mark Cascia (1) , Robert A. Chalmers (1) , Jason P. Dworkin (1) , Therese Errigo (1) , Paula Everson (1) , Heather Franz (1) , Rodger Farley (1) , Steven Feng (1) , Gregory Frazier (1) , Caroline Freissinet (1) , Daniel P. Glavin (1) , Daniel N. Harpold (1) , Douglas Hawk (1) , Vincent Holmes (1) , Christopher S. Johnson (1) , Andrea Jones (1) , Patrick Jordan (1) , James Kellogg (1) , Jesse Lewis (1) , Eric Lyness (1) , Charles A. Malespin (1) , David K. Martin (1) , John Maurer (1) , Amy C. Mcadam (1) , Douglas Mclennan (1) , Thomas J. Nolan (1) , Marvin Noriega (1) , Alexander A. Pavlov (1) , Benito Prats (1) , Eric Raaen (1) , Oren Sheinman (1) , David Sheppard (1) , James Smith (1) , Jennifer C. Stern (1) , Florence Tan (1) , Melissa Trainer (1) , Douglas W. Ming (6) , Richard V. Morris (6) , John Jones (6) , Cindy Gundersen (7) , Andrew Steele (8) , James Wray (9) , Oliver Botta (10) , Laurie A. Leshin (11) , Tobias Owen (12) , Steve Battel (13) , Bruce M. Jakosky (14) , Heidi Manning (15) , Steven Squyres (16) , Rafael Navarro-González (17) , Christopher P. Mckay (18) , Francois Raulin (4) , Robert Sternberg (4) , Arnaud Buch (19) , Paul Sorense , Robert Kline-Schoder , David Coscia (3) , Cyril Szopa (3) , Samuel Teinturier (20) , Curt Baffes (2) , Jason Feldman (2) , Greg Flesch (2) , Siamak Forouhar (2) , Ray Garcia (2) , Didier Keymeulen (2) , Steve Woodward (2) , Bruce P. Block (21) , Ken Arnett (21) , Ryan Miller (21) , Charles Edmonson (21) , Stephen Gorevan , Erik Mumm
Paul R. Mahaffy
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Michel Cabane
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Mehdi Benna
Caroline Freissinet
David Sheppard
Arnaud Buch
Paul Sorense
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Robert Kline-Schoder
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David Coscia
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Cyril Szopa
Stephen Gorevan
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Erik Mumm
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The Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) investigation of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) addresses the chemical and isotopic composition of the atmosphere and volatiles extracted from solid samples. The SAM investigation is designed to contribute substantially to the mission goal of quantitatively assessing the habitability of Mars as an essential step in the search for past or present life on Mars. SAM is a 40 kg instrument suite located in the interior of MSL's Curiosity rover. The SAM instruments are a quadrupole mass spectrometer, a tunable laser spectrometer, and a 6-column gas chromatograph all coupled through solid and gas processing systems to provide complementary information on the same samples. The SAM suite is able to measure a suite of light isotopes and to analyze volatiles directly from the atmosphere or thermally released from solid samples. In addition to measurements of simple inorganic compounds and noble gases SAM will conduct a sensitive search for organic compounds with either thermal or chemical extraction from sieved samples delivered by the sample processing system on the Curiosity rover's robotic arm.
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hal-00694758 , version 1 (14-01-2020)

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Paul R. Mahaffy, Christopher R. Webster, Michel Cabane, Pamela G. Conrad, Patrice Coll, et al.. The Sample Analysis at Mars Investigation and Instrument Suite. Space Science Reviews, 2012, 170 (1-4), pp.401-478. ⟨10.1007/s11214-012-9879-z⟩. ⟨hal-00694758⟩
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