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S. W. Squyres

Researcher at Cornell University

Publications -  210
Citations -  10570

S. W. Squyres is an academic researcher from Cornell University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mars Exploration Program & Meridiani Planum. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 210 publications receiving 9646 citations. Previous affiliations of S. W. Squyres include California Institute of Technology.

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A habitable fluvio-lacustrine environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale crater, Mars.

John P. Grotzinger, +71 more
- 24 Jan 2014 - 
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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Volatile, Isotope, and Organic Analysis of Martian Fines with the Mars Curiosity Rover

TL;DR: Samples from the Rocknest aeolian deposit were heated to ~835°C under helium flow and evolved gases analyzed by Curiosity's Sample Analysis at Mars instrument suite, suggesting that oxygen is produced from thermal decomposition of an oxychloride compound.