Sinton Bands: Evidence for Deuterated Water on Mars
- 1 January 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 147 (3653), 48-49
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.147.3653.48
Abstract
The infrared absorption bands observed by Sinton at 2710, 2793, and 2898 cm-1, in the spectrum of Mars, may be due to gaseous D2O and HDO in the Martian atmosphere. The implication would be that the deuterium: hydrogen ratio exceeds that on Earth, presumably because of escape of the lighter gases from Mars, with accompanying gravitational fractionation of the hydrogen isotopes.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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