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Scientific Benefit of a Mars Dust Sample Capture and Earth Return with SCIM

Laurie A. Leshin, B. C. Clark, Larry J. Forney, Steven M. Jones, A. J. G. Jurewicz, Ronald Greeley, Harry Y. McSWEEN Jr, Mark Ian Richardson, T. G. Sharp, M. H. Thiemens

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The Sample Collection for Investigation of Mars (SCIM) mission, presently a finalist for flight as a Mars Scout, proposes to return martian atmospheric dust to Earth for mineralogical, chemical, isotopic, and other studies. The returned sample will consist of least 1000 martian dust particles =10 m in diameter plus millions of smaller particles. Here we discuss the science gained from analyzing such a sample in terrestrial laboratories. An accompanying abstract discusses the SCIM atmosphere sample return science.

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The Sample Collection for Investigation of Mars (SCIM) mission, presently a finalist for flight as a Mars Scout, proposes to return martian atmospheric dust to Earth for mineralogical, chemical, isotopic, and other studies. The returned sample will consist of least 1000 martian dust particles =10 m in diameter plus millions of smaller particles. Here we discuss the science gained from analyzing such a sample in terrestrial laboratories. An accompanying abstract discusses the SCIM atmosphere sample return science.

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The Sample Collection for Investigation of Mars (SCIM) mission, presently a finalist for flight as a Mars Scout, proposes to return martian atmospheric dust to Earth for mineralogical, chemical, isotopic, and other studies. The returned sample will consist of least 1000 martian dust particles =10 m in diameter plus millions of smaller particles. Here we discuss the science gained from analyzing such a sample in terrestrial laboratories. An accompanying abstract discusses the SCIM atmosphere sample return science.

Key concepts: Mars Exploration Program, Astrobiology, Martian, Atmosphere of Mars, Sample (material), Earth (classical element), Atmosphere (unit), Environmental science

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