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B. D. Prats
Researcher at Goddard Space Flight Center
Publications - 17
Citations - 1636
B. D. Prats is an academic researcher from Goddard Space Flight Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Sample Analysis at Mars & Mars Exploration Program. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 17 publications receiving 1295 citations.
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The Sample Analysis at Mars Investigation and Instrument Suite
Paul R. Mahaffy,Chris Webster,Michel Cabane,Pamela G. Conrad,Patrice Coll,Sushil K. Atreya,Robert Arvey,Michael Barciniak,Mehdi Benna,L. Bleacher,William B. Brinckerhoff,Jennifer L. Eigenbrode,Daniel Carignan,Mark Cascia,Robert A. Chalmers,Jason P. Dworkin,Therese Errigo,Paula Everson,Heather B. Franz,Rodger Farley,Steven Feng,Gregory Frazier,Caroline Freissinet,Daniel P. Glavin,D. N. Harpold,Douglas L. Hawk,Vincent Holmes,Christopher S. Johnson,Andrea Jones,Patrick R. Jordan,James W. Kellogg,Jesse Lewis,Eric Lyness,Charles Malespin,David Martin,John Maurer,Amy McAdam,Douglas McLennan,T. Nolan,Marvin Noriega,Alexander A. Pavlov,B. D. Prats,E. Raaen,Oren E. Sheinman,D. Sheppard,James Smith,Jennifer C. Stern,Florence Tan,Melissa G. Trainer,Douglas W. Ming,Richard V. Morris,John H. Jones,Cindy Gundersen,Andrew Steele,James J. Wray,Oliver Botta,Laurie A. Leshin,Tobias Owen,Steve Battel,Bruce M. Jakosky,H. L. K. Manning,Steven W. Squyres,Rafael Navarro-González,Christopher P. McKay,François Raulin,Robert Sternberg,Arnaud Buch,Paul Sorensen,Robert Kline-Schoder,David Coscia,Cyril Szopa,Samuel Teinturier,Curt Baffes,Jason Feldman,Greg Flesch,Siamak Forouhar,Ray Garcia,Didier Keymeulen,Steve Woodward,Bruce P. Block,Ken Arnett,Ryan M. Miller,Charles Edmonson,Stephen Gorevan,E. Mumm +84 more
TL;DR: The Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) investigation of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) addresses the chemical and isotopic composition of the atmosphere and volatiles extracted from solid samples.
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Volatile and organic compositions of sedimentary rocks in Yellowknife Bay, Gale crater, Mars.
Douglas W. Ming,P. D. Archer,Daniel P. Glavin,Jennifer L. Eigenbrode,Heather B. Franz,B. Sutter,A. E. Brunner,Jennifer C. Stern,Caroline Freissinet,Amy McAdam,Paul R. Mahaffy,Michel Cabane,Patrice Coll,John Campbell,Sushil K. Atreya,Paul B. Niles,James F. Bell,David L. Bish,William B. Brinckerhoff,Arnaud Buch,Pamela G. Conrad,David J. Des Marais,B. L. Ehlmann,Alberto G. Fairén,Kenneth A. Farley,G. J. Flesch,Pascaline Francois,Ralf Gellert,John A. Grant,John P. Grotzinger,Sanjeev Gupta,K. E. Herkenhoff,Joel A. Hurowitz,Laurie A. Leshin,Kevin W. Lewis,Scott M. McLennan,Kristen E. Miller,Jeffrey E. Moersch,Richard V. Morris,Rafael Navarro-González,A. A. Pavlov,G. M. Perrett,I. Pradler,S. W. Squyres,Roger E. Summons,Andrew Steele,Edward M. Stolper,Dawn Y. Sumner,Cyril Szopa,Samuel Teinturier,M. G. Trainer,Allan H. Treiman,David T. Vaniman,Ashwin Vasavada,Chris Webster,James J. Wray,R. A. Yingst,Osku Kemppinen,Nathan T. Bridges,Jeffrey R. Johnson,Michelle E. Minitti,David A. Cremers,Lauren A. Edgar,Jack D. Farmer,A. Godber,Meenakshi Wadhwa,Danika Wellington,Ian Mcewan,Claire E. Newman,Mark I. Richardson,Antoine Charpentier,Laurent Peret,Penelope L. King,Jennifer G. Blank,G. Weigle,Mariek E. Schmidt,Shuai Li,Ralph E. Milliken,K. M. Robertson,Vivian Z. Sun,Michael B. Baker,Christopher S. Edwards,Bethany L. Ehlmann,J. L. Griffes,M. E. Newcombe,Cedric Pilorget,Melissa S. Rice,Kirsten L. Siebach,K. M. Stack,Claude Brunet,V. Hipkin,Richard Leveille,Genevieve Marchand,Pablo Sobron Sanchez,Laurent Favot,George D. Cody,Lorenzo Fluckiger,David Lees,Ara V. Nefian,Mildred P. Martin,Marc Gailhanou,Frances Westall,G. Israel,Christophe Agard,J. Baroukh,C. Donny,Alain Gaboriaud,P. Guillemot,Vivian Lafaille,Eric Lorigny,Alexis Paillet,R. Perez,Muriel Saccoccio,C. Yana,Carlos Armiens-Aparicio,Javier Caride Rodriguez,Isaias Carrasco Blazquez,Felipe Gómez,Javier Gómez-Elvira,Sebastien Hettrich,Alain Lepinette Malvitte,Mercedes Jiménez,Jesús Martínez-Frías,J. Martín-Soler,F. Javier Martin-Torres,Antonio Molina Jurado,Luis Mora-Sotomayor,Guillermo M. Muñoz Caro,Sara Navarro Lopez,Verónica Peinado-Gonzalez,Jorge Pla-Garcia,José Antonio Rodríguez Manfredi,Julio José Romeral-Planello,Sara Alejandra Sans Fuentes,Eduardo Sebastian Martinez,Josefina Torres Redondo,Roser Urqui-O'Callaghan,Maria-Paz Zorzano Mier,Steve J. Chipera,Jean-Luc Lacour,Patrick Mauchien,Jean-Baptiste Sirven,H. L. K. Manning,Alexander Hayes,J. Joseph,Robert Sullivan,Peter C. Thomas,Audrey Dupont,Angela Lundberg,Noureddine Melikechi,A. Mezzacappa,Julia DeMarines,David Grinspoon,Günter Reitz,B. D. Prats,Evgeny Atlaskin,Maria Genzer,Ari-Matti Harri,Harri Haukka,Henrik Kahanpää,Janne Kauhanen,Mark Paton,Jouni Polkko,Walter Schmidt,T. Siili,Cécile Fabre,Mary Beth Wilhelm,Mary Beth Wilhelm,Franck Poitrasson,Kiran Patel,S. P. Gorevan,S. Indyk,Gale Paulsen,Juergen Schieber,Brigitte Gondet,Yves Langevin,Claude Geffroy,David Baratoux,Gilles Berger,Alain Cros,Claude d’Uston,Olivier Forni,Olivier Gasnault,Jérémie Lasue,Qiu-Mei Lee,Sylvestre Maurice,P. Y. Meslin,E. Pallier,Yann Parot,Patrick Pinet,Susanne Schröder,Mike Toplis,Eric Lewin,W. Brunner,Ezat Heydari,C. N.. Achilles,Dorothy Z. Oehler,David Coscia,Gilles Dromart,François Robert,V. Sautter,S. Le Mouélic,Nicolas Mangold,Marion Nachon,F. Stalport,François Raulin,Jacqueline Cameron,Samuel M. Clegg,Agnes Cousin,D. M. Delapp,Robert Dingler,R. Jackson,S. Johnstone,Nina Lanza,Cynthia K. Little,T. Nelson,Roger C. Wiens,R. B. Williams,Adrian P. Jones,L. E. Kirkland,Burt Baker,Bruce A. Cantor,Michael Caplinger,Scott Davis,Brian M. Duston,Kenneth S. Edgett,Donald Fay,Craig Hardgrove,David E. Harker,Paul Herrera,E. Jensen,M. R. Kennedy,Gillian M. Krezoski,Daniel J. Krysak,L. J. Lipkaman,Michael C. Malin,E. McCartney,S. McNair,B. E. Nixon,L. Posiolova,M. A. Ravine,A. Salamon,L. Saper,K. Stoiber,K. Supulver,J. Van Beek,T. Van Beek,R. Zimdar,Katherine L. French,Karl Iagnemma,Kenneth G. Miller,Fred Goesmann,Walter Goetz,Stubbe F. Hviid,Miles J. Johnson,M. Lefavor,Eric Lyness,E. A. Breves,M. D. Dyar,Caleb I. Fassett,David F. Blake,Thomas F. Bristow,L. J. Edwards,Robert M. Haberle,Tori M. Hoehler,Jeff Hollingsworth,Melinda A. Kahre,Leslie Keely,Christopher P. McKay,L. Bleacher,David Choi,Jason P. Dworkin,Melissa Floyd,James B. Garvin,D. N. Harpold,David Martin,E. Raaen,Michael D. Smith,Florence Tan,M. A. Meyer,Arik Posner,Mary A. Voytek,Robert C. Anderson,Andrew D. Aubrey,Luther W. Beegle,A. Behar,Diana L. Blaney,David E. Brinza,Fred Calef,Lance E. Christensen,Joy A. Crisp,Lauren DeFlores,Jason Feldman,Sabrina Feldman,Insoo Jun,Didier Keymeulen,Justin N. Maki,Michael Mischna,J. M. Morookian,T. J. Parker,B. Pavri,M. J. Schoppers,Aaron J. Sengstacken,John J. Simmonds,N. Spanovich,Manuel de la Torre Juárez,Albert S. Yen,Francis A. Cucinotta,John H. Jones,Elizabeth B. Rampe,T. Nolan,Martin R. Fisk,Leon Radziemski,B. L. Barraclough,S. Bender,Daniel C. Berman,Eldar Noe Dobrea,R. L. Tokar,Rebecca M. E. Williams,T. Cleghorn,Wesley T. Huntress,Gérard Manhès,J. Hudgins,T. S. Olson,Noël Stewart,Philippe Sarrazin,Edward P. Vicenzi,Sharon A. Wilson,Mark A. Bullock,Bent Ehresmann,V. E. Hamilton,Donald M. Hassler,J. Peterson,S. C. R. Rafkin,Cary Zeitlin,F. Fedosov,Dmitry Golovin,N. Karpushkina,A. S. Kozyrev,M. L. Litvak,Alexey Malakhov,I. G. Mitrofanov,Maxim Mokrousov,Sergey Nikiforov,V. Prokhorov,A. B. Sanin,Vladislav Tretyakov,A. Varenikov,Andrey Vostrukhin,Ruslan O. Kuzmin,B. C. Clark,M. J. Wolff,Oliver Botta,Darrell Drake,K. M. Bean,Mark T. Lemmon,Susanne P. Schwenzer,Ryan B. Anderson,E. M. Lee,Robert M. Sucharski,M. A. D. P. Hernandez,J. J. B. Avalos,Miguel Ramos,M.-H. Kim,Charles Malespin,I. Plante,Jan-Peter Muller,Rodney C. Ewing,William V. Boynton,Robert T. Downs,M. Fitzgibbon,K. Harshman,Shaunna M. Morrison,William E. Dietrich,O. Kortmann,Marisa C. Palucis,Amy J. Williams,G. W. Lugmair,Michael A. Wilson,D. M. Rubin,Bruce M. Jakosky,Tonci Balic-Zunic,Jens Frydenvang,J. K. Jensen,Kjartan M. Kinch,A. Koefoed,Morten Madsen,Susan L. S. Stipp,N. I. Boyd,Scott VanBommel,S. Jacob,T. C. Owen,Steven J. Rowland,Hannu Savijärvi,E. Boehm,Stephan Böttcher,Sönke Burmeister,J. Guo,Jan Köhler,C. M. Garcia,R. Mueller-Mellin,Robert F. Wimmer-Schweingruber,John Bridges,Timothy H. McConnochie,Mehdi Benna,H. Bower,H. Blau,T. Boucher,M. Carmosino,H. M. Elliott,D. Halleaux,Nilton O. Renno,Michael H. Wong,Robert O. Pepin,B. Elliott,John G. Spray,Lucy M. Thompson,S. Gordon,Horton E. Newsom,Ann Ollila,Jean-Pierre Williams,Paulo M. Vasconcelos,J. Bentz,Kenneth H. Nealson,Radu Popa,L. C. Kah,C. Tate,Mackenzie Day,Gary Kocurek,Bernard Hallet,R. S. Sletten,R. Francis,Emily M. McCullough,Edward A. Cloutis,I. L. ten Kate,Raymond E. Arvidson,A. A. Fraeman,D. Scholes,S. Slavney,T. Stein,John M. Ward,Jeff A. Berger,John E. Moores +442 more
TL;DR: Higher abundances of chlorinated hydrocarbons in the mudstone compared with Rocknest windblown materials previously analyzed by Curiosity suggest that indigenous martian or meteoritic organic carbon sources may be preserved in the Mudstone; however, the carbon source for the chlorinatedHydrocarbons is not definitively of martian origin.
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Organic molecules in the Sheepbed Mudstone, Gale Crater, Mars
Caroline Freissinet,Caroline Freissinet,Daniel P. Glavin,Paul R. Mahaffy,Kristen E. Miller,Jennifer L. Eigenbrode,Roger E. Summons,A. E. Brunner,A. E. Brunner,Arnaud Buch,Cyril Szopa,P. D. Archer,H. B. Franz,H. B. Franz,Sushil K. Atreya,William B. Brinckerhoff,Michel Cabane,Patrice Coll,Pamela G. Conrad,D. J. Des Marais,Jason P. Dworkin,Alberto G. Fairén,Alberto G. Fairén,Pascaline Francois,John P. Grotzinger,S. Kashyap,S. Kashyap,I. L. ten Kate,Laurie A. Leshin,C. A. Malespin,C. A. Malespin,M. G. Martin,M. G. Martin,F. J. Martin-Torres,F. J. Martin-Torres,Amy McAdam,Douglas W. Ming,Rafael Navarro-González,Alexander A. Pavlov,B. D. Prats,Steven W. Squyres,Andrew Steele,Jennifer C. Stern,Dawn Y. Sumner,Brad Sutter,María Paz Zorzano +45 more
TL;DR: Chlorinated hydrocarbons identified in the Sheepbed mudstone by SAM are the reaction products of Martian chlorine and organic carbon derived from Martian sources or exogenous sources such as meteorites, comets, or interplanetary dust particles.
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The Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer on the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission
Paul R. Mahaffy,Mehdi Benna,Todd King,D. N. Harpold,Robert Arvey,Michael Barciniak,Mirl Bendt,Daniel Carrigan,Therese Errigo,Vincent Holmes,Christopher S. Johnson,James W. Kellogg,Patrick Kimvilakani,Matthew Lefavor,Jerome Hengemihle,Ferzan Jaeger,Eric Lyness,John Maurer,Anthony Melak,Felix Noreiga,Marvin Noriega,Kiran Patel,B. D. Prats,E. Raaen,Florence Tan,Edwin Weidner,Cynthia Gundersen,Steven Battel,Bruce P. Block,Ken Arnett,Ryan M. Miller,Curt Cooper,Charles Edmonson,J. Thomas Nolan +33 more
TL;DR: The Neutral Gas and Ion Mass Spectrometer (NGIMS) of the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission (MAVEN) is designed to measure the composition, struc- ture, and variability of the upper atmosphere of Mars.
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Initial SAM calibration gas experiments on Mars: Quadrupole mass spectrometer results and implications
Heather B. Franz,Melissa G. Trainer,Charles Malespin,Paul R. Mahaffy,Sushil K. Atreya,Richard H. Becker,Mehdi Benna,Pamela G. Conrad,Jennifer L. Eigenbrode,Caroline Freissinet,Heidi L. K. Manning,B. D. Prats,E. Raaen,Michael H. Wong +13 more
TL;DR: The Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover is equipped to analyze both martian atmospheric gases and volatiles released by pyrolysis of solid surface materials, with target measurements including chemical and isotopic composition as discussed by the authors.