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Radiolytic Degradation of Soil Carbon from the Mojave Desert by 60Co Gamma Rays: Implications for the Survival of Martian Organic Compounds Due to Cosmic Radiation
- Source :
- Astrobiology. 21:381-393
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Mary Ann Liebert Inc, 2021.
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Abstract
- The martian surface has been continuously exposed to galactic cosmic radiation. Since organic compounds are degraded by ionizing radiation, knowledge of their decay constants is fundamental to pred...
- Subjects :
- Martian
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Gamma ray
Desert (particle physics)
Cosmic ray
Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics
Soil carbon
Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)
Astrobiology
Ionizing radiation
Space and Planetary Science
Martian surface
Radiolysis
Environmental science
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15578070 and 15311074
- Volume :
- 21
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Astrobiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........a83cdcee5b12a1a7855316504030e756