Chemistry and mineralogy of outcrops at Meridiani Planum

@article{Clark2005ChemistryAM,
  title={Chemistry and mineralogy of outcrops at Meridiani Planum},
  author={Benton C. Clark and Richard V. Morris and Scott M. McLennan and Ralf Gellert and Bradley L. Jolliff and Andrew H. Knoll and Steven W. Squyres and Tim K. Lowenstein and Doug W. Ming and Nicholas J. Tosca and Albert S. Yen and Philip R. Christensen and Stephen Gorevan and Johannes Br{\"u}ckner and Wendy M. Calvin and Gerlind Dreibus and William H. Farrand and Goestar Klingelhoefer and Heinrich Waenke and J. Zipfel and James F. Bell and John P. Grotzinger and Harry Y. McSween and Rudolf Rieder},
  journal={Earth and Planetary Science Letters},
  year={2005},
  volume={240},
  pages={73-94}
}
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