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Robert C. Anderson
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
Publications - 153
Citations - 7648
Robert C. Anderson is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mars Exploration Program & Tharsis. The author has an hindex of 37, co-authored 151 publications receiving 6860 citations. Previous affiliations of Robert C. Anderson include Jet Propulsion Laboratory & Ohio State University.
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A habitable fluvio-lacustrine environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale crater, Mars.
John P. Grotzinger,Dawn Y. Sumner,Linda C. Kah,K. M. Stack,Sanjeev Gupta,Lauren A. Edgar,David M. Rubin,Kevin W. Lewis,Juergen Schieber,Nicolas Mangold,Ralph E. Milliken,Pamela G. Conrad,David J. DesMarais,Jack D. Farmer,Kirsten L. Siebach,Fred Calef,Joel A. Hurowitz,Scott M. McLennan,Douglas W. Ming,David T. Vaniman,Joy A. Crisp,Ashwin R. Vasavada,Kenneth S. Edgett,Michael C. Malin,David F. Blake,Ralf Gellert,Paul R. Mahaffy,Roger C. Wiens,Sylvestre Maurice,John A. Grant,Sharon A. Wilson,Robert C. Anderson,Luther W. Beegle,Raymond E. Arvidson,Bernard Hallet,R. S. Sletten,Melissa S. Rice,James F. Bell,J. L. Griffes,Bethany L. Ehlmann,Ryan B. Anderson,Thomas F. Bristow,William E. Dietrich,Gilles Dromart,Jennifer L. Eigenbrode,Abigail A. Fraeman,Craig Hardgrove,K. E. Herkenhoff,Louise Jandura,Gary Kocurek,Seungwon Lee,Laurie A. Leshin,Richard Leveille,Daniel Limonadi,Justin N. Maki,Scott McCloskey,M. A. Meyer,Michelle E. Minitti,Horton E. Newsom,Dorothy Z. Oehler,Avi Okon,Marisa C. Palucis,T. J. Parker,Scott K. Rowland,Mariek E. Schmidt,S. W. Squyres,Andrew Steele,Edward M. Stolper,Roger E. Summons,Allan H. Treiman,Rebecca M. E. Williams,A. Yingst +71 more
TL;DR: The Curiosity rover discovered fine-grained sedimentary rocks, which are inferred to represent an ancient lake and preserve evidence of an environment that would have been suited to support a martian biosphere founded on chemolithoautotrophy.
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Mars Science Laboratory Mission and Science Investigation
John P. Grotzinger,Joy A. Crisp,Ashwin R. Vasavada,Robert C. Anderson,Charles J. Baker,Robert Barry,David F. Blake,Pamela G. Conrad,Kenneth S. Edgett,Bobak Ferdowski,Ralf Gellert,John B. Gilbert,Matthew P. Golombek,Javier Gómez-Elvira,Donald M. Hassler,Louise Jandura,Maxim Litvak,Paul R. Mahaffy,Justin N. Maki,M. A. Meyer,Michael C. Malin,I. G. Mitrofanov,John J. Simmonds,David T. Vaniman,Richard V. Welch,Roger C. Wiens +25 more
TL;DR: The Curiosity rover has a designed lifetime of at least one Mars year (∼23 months) and drive capability of up to 20 km as discussed by the authors, and is a scaled version of the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) Spirit and Opportunity and the Mars Pathfinder Sojourner.
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Overview of the Spirit Mars Exploration Rover Mission to Gusev Crater: Landing site to Backstay Rock in the Columbia Hills
Raymond E. Arvidson,Steven W. Squyres,Robert C. Anderson,James F. Bell,Diana L. Blaney,J. Brückner,N. A. Cabrol,Wendy M. Calvin,Michael H. Carr,Philip R. Christensen,Benton C. Clark,Larry S. Crumpler,David J. Des Marais,P. A. de Souza,Claude d’Uston,Thanasis E. Economou,Jack D. Farmer,William H. Farrand,William M. Folkner,Matthew P. Golombek,S. P. Gorevan,John A. Grant,Ronald Greeley,John P. Grotzinger,Edward A. Guinness,B. C. Hahn,Larry A. Haskin,K. E. Herkenhoff,Joel A. Hurowitz,Stubbe F. Hviid,Jeffrey R. Johnson,Göstar Klingelhöfer,Andrew H. Knoll,G. Landis,Craig E. Leff,Mark T. Lemmon,R. Li,Morten Madsen,Michael C. Malin,Scott M. McLennan,Harry Y. McSween,D. W. Ming,Jeffrey E. Moersch,Richard V. Morris,T. J. Parker,J. W. Rice,Lutz Richter,R. Rieder,Daniel Rodionov,Christian Schröder,M. Sims,M. D. Smith,Paul S. Smith,L. A. Soderblom,Ryan C. Sullivan,S. D. Thompson,Nicholas J. Tosca,Alian Wang,Heinrich Wänke,J. G. Ward,Thomas J. Wdowiak,M. J. Wolff,Albert S. Yen +62 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the surface enrichment is the result of a minor amount of transport and deposition by aqueous processes on the surface of olivine-bearing basalts.
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Chemistry of rocks and soils at Meridiani Planum from the Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer.
Rudolf Rieder,Ralf Gellert,Robert C. Anderson,J. Brückner,Benton C. Clark,Gerlind Dreibus,Thanasis E. Economou,Göstar Klingelhöfer,G. W. Lugmair,D. W. Ming,Steven W. Squyres,Claude d’Uston,Heinrich Wänke,Albert S. Yen,Jutta Zipfel +14 more
TL;DR: The Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer on the Opportunity rover determined major and minor elements of soils and rocks in Meridiani Planum, indicating the interaction with water in the past is indicated by the chemical features in rocks and soils.
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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.