High Manganese Observations with Chemcam in Gale Crater, Mars
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([email protected]), W.W. Fischer, R.C. Wiens, J. Grotzinger, A.M. Ollila, A. Cousin, R.B. Anderson, B.C. Clark, R. Gellert, N. Mangold, S. Maurice, S. Le Mouélic, M. Nachon, M. Schmidt, J. Berger, S. M. Clegg, O. Forni, C. Hardgrove, N. Melikechi, H.E. Newsom, V. Sautter. Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM 87545, U.S.A. California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA. University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ. Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO. University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, N1G 2W1, Canada. Université Nantes, Nantes, France. Université Paul Sabatier, Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), Toulouse, France. Brock University, Saint Catherines, Ontario, L2S 3A1, Canada. University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, N6A 5B7, Canada. Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ. Delaware State University, Dover, DE. Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France. (Now at Chevron Energy Technology Company, Houston, TX).
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