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Record W4408535281 · doi:10.7185/geochemlet.2509

Ageing of organic materials at the surface of Mars: A Raman study aboard Perseverance

2025· article· en· W4408535281 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueGeochemical Perspectives Letters · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPhysics and Astronomy
TopicPlanetary Science and Exploration
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Winnipeg
FundersLos Alamos National LaboratoryMuséum National d'Histoire NaturelleCentre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueCentre National d’Etudes SpatialesAgencia Estatal de InvestigaciónCalifornia Institute of TechnologyNational Aeronautics and Space Administration
KeywordsMars Exploration ProgramRaman spectroscopyAstrobiologyAgeingMaterials scienceGeologyPhysicsOptics

Abstract

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The Perseverance rover is exploring Jezero crater on Mars, one of its goals being to collect samples to be returned to Earth to search for organic remains of ancient Martian life. However, the organic content of these rocks has likely suffered from the radiation environment on the surface of Mars to an extent yet to be quantified. For the first time, a 1000 sols long ageing experiment was conducted at the surface of Mars, i.e. under actual Martian conditions, relying on the 100 % organic Ertalyte target carried by Perseverance. White at landing, the Ertalyte target has turned brown with time, while its Raman signal changed, with a modification of the background (its maximum has shifted from 1500 to 2000 cm−1) and a reduction of the contribution of the Raman signal of Ertalyte (by a factor of 5 over the first 500 sols). Given the intrinsic resistance of the Ertalyte to UV exposure, which is not anticipated for most Martian organic materials, these results suggest that exposure at the surface of Mars will make the detection of Martian organic molecules challenging.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: Bench or experimental
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.076
Threshold uncertainty score0.302

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

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Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
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Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.225
Teacher spread0.219 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it