Evidence for indigenous nitrogen in sedimentary and aeolian deposits from the Curiosity rover investigations at Gale crater, Mars

被引：152

作者：

Stern, Jennifer C. ^{[1
]}

Sutter, Brad ^{[2
]}

Freissinet, Caroline ^{[3
]}

Navarro-Gonzalez, Rafael ^{[4
]}

McKay, Christopher P.

Archer, P. Douglas, Jr. ^{[2
]}

Buch, Arnaud ^{[5
]}

Brunner, Anna E. ^{[1
,6
]}

Coll, Patrice ^{[7
,8
]}

Eigenbrode, Jennifer L. ^{[1
]}

Fairen, Alberto G. ^{[9
,10
]}

Franz, Heather B. ^{[1
,11
]}

Glavin, Daniel P. ^{[1
]}

Kashyap, Srishti ^{[1
,12
]}

McAdam, Amy C. ^{[1
]}

Ming, Douglas W. ^{[13
]}

Steele, Andrew ^{[14
]}

Szopa, Cyril ^{[15
,16
]}

Wray, James J. ^{[17
]}

Martin-Torres, F. Javier ^{[18
,19
]}

Zorzano, Maria-Paz ^{[9
]}

Conrad, Pamela G. ^{[1
]}

Mahaffy, Paul R. ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Solar Syst Explorat Div, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

[2] NASA, Johnson Space Ctr, Jacobs Technol Inc, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

[3] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, NASA Postdoctoral Program, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

[4] Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Ciencias Nucl, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico

[5] Ecole Cent Paris, Lab Genie Proc & Mat, F-92295 Chatenay Malabry, France

[6] Arizona State Univ, Sch Earth & Space Explorat, Tempe, AZ 85281 USA

[7] Univ Paris Diderot, Univ Paris Est Creteil, Lab Interuniv Syst Atmospher, F-94000 Creteil, France

[8] CNRS, F-94000 Creteil, France

[9] Ctr Astrobiol, Madrid 28850, Spain

[10] Cornell Univ, Dept Astron, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA

[11] Univ Maryland, Ctr Res & Explorat Space Sci & Technol, College Pk, MD 20742 USA

[12] Univ Massachusetts, Dept Microbiol, Amherst, MA 01003 USA

[13] NASA, Lyndon B Johnson Space Ctr, Astromat Res & Explorat Sci Directorate, Houston, TX 77058 USA

[14] Carnegie Inst Sci, Geophys Lab, Washington, DC 20015 USA

[15] Univ Versailles St Quentin, Univ Paris 06, Lab Atmospheres Milieux & Observat Spatiales, F-75005 Paris, France

[16] CNRS, F-75005 Paris, France

[17] Georgia Inst Technol, Sch Earth & Atmospher Sci, Atlanta, GA 30332 USA

[18] Univ Granada, CSIC, Inst Andaluz Ciencias Tierra, Granada 18100, Spain

[19] Lulea Univ Technol, Dept Comp Sci Elect & Space Engn, Div Space Technol, S-98128 Kiruna, Sweden

[20] CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA

来源：

PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | 2015年 / 112卷 / 14期

基金：

美国国家航空航天局;

关键词：

Mars; nitrogen; astrobiology; nitrates; Curiosity; THERMAL-DECOMPOSITION; MASS-SPECTROMETRY; FIXATION; ROCKNEST; ATMOSPHERE; VOLATILE; NITRATE; SURFACE; SEARCH; ENVIRONMENT;

D O I：

10.1073/pnas.1420932112

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

The Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) investigation on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover has detected oxidized nitrogen-bearing compounds during pyrolysis of scooped aeolian sediments and drilled sedimentary deposits within Gale crater. Total N concentrations ranged from 20 to 250 nmol N per sample. After subtraction of known N sources in SAM, our results support the equivalent of 110-300 ppm of nitrate in the Rocknest (RN) aeolian samples, and 70-260 and 330-1,100 ppm nitrate in John Klein (JK) and Cumberland (CB) mudstone deposits, respectively. Discovery of indigenous martian nitrogen in Mars surface materials has important implications for habitability and, specifically, for the potential evolution of a nitrogen cycle at some point in martian history. The detection of nitrate in both wind-drifted fines (RN) and in mudstone (JK, CB) is likely a result of N-2 fixation to nitrate generated by thermal shock from impact or volcanic plume lightning on ancient Mars. Fixed nitrogen could have facilitated the development of a primitive nitrogen cycle on the surface of ancient Mars, potentially providing a biochemically accessible source of nitrogen.

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页码：4245 / 4250

页数：6

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