Cosmochemistry
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Mars
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The Cosmochemistry Group first worked on a
Mars-related project when it used the thermoluminescence properties of martian meteorites to determine their thermal histories (Hasan et al., 1996). Subsequently, we found objects in lunar
meteorites similar to those that had been thought to be microfossils in martian
meteorites and we argued that the objects were not biological in origin (Sears and Kral. 1998).
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With
the acquisition of the large planetary environmental simulator, that we call
the Andromeda chamber, we have become interested in simulating processes
occurring on Mars and have begun with determining evaporation rates for water
under a variety of conditions (Moore and
Sears, 2006, Sears and
Chittenden, 2005, Sears and
Moore, 2005).
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Shortly after we began this work, we received
major grant from the W. M. Keck Foundation and we opened the W. M. Keck Laboratory for Space Simulation that has
its own web site.
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