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Major issues and outstanding questionsThe physical, chemical, geologic, and biological issues underlying current efforts to understand Mars are introduced and summarized. Attention is given not only to the present status and past history of Mars, and also to Mars as one member of the class of terrestrial planets and as one product of the evolution from the primordial accretion disk. The issue of the origin and evolution of Mars' inventory of volatile elements is treated in detail, as are the SNC meteorites, both for what these putative Martian samples indicate about volatile distributions and because of their profound impact on assessments on bulk chemical composition and the chronology of planetary differentiation and late-stage volcanism. Overviews of the major problems arising from multidisciplinary investigations of the planet are also presented.
Document ID
19930043859
Acquisition Source
Legacy CDMS
Document Type
Conference Proceedings
Authors
Pepin, Robert O.
(Minnesota Univ. Minneapolis, United States)
Carr, Michael H.
(USGS Menlo Park, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 16, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 1992
Publication Information
Publication: In: Mars (A93-27852 09-91)
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Exploration
Accession Number
93A27856
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAG9-60
CONTRACT_GRANT: NAGW-1371
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
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