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SUBMITTER: Steele A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6209388 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Science advances 20181031 10
The sources and nature of organic carbon on Mars have been a subject of intense research. Steele <i>et al.</i> (2012) showed that 10 martian meteorites contain macromolecular carbon phases contained within pyroxene- and olivine-hosted melt inclusions. Here, we show that martian meteorites Tissint, Nakhla, and NWA 1950 have an inventory of organic carbon species associated with fluid-mineral reactions that are remarkably consistent with those detected by the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. ...[more]