The delivery of organic matter from asteroids and comets to the early surface of Mars

✍ Scribed by George J. Flynn

• Book ID: 104627459
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 445 KB
• Volume: 72
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-0794
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00117551

✦ Synopsis

Carbon delivered to the Earth by interplanetary dust particles may have been an important source of pre-biotic organic matter (Anders, 1989). Interplanetary dust is shown to deliver an order-of-magnitude higher surface concentration of carbon onto Mars than onto Earth, suggesting interplanetary dust may be an important source of carbon on Mars as well.