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Leben auf dem Mars? - Chemische Kinetik und Lebensprozesse - Gaschromatographie im VIKING Lander   [Original Title]

Mars: Chemistry Looks for Life   [Title Translation]
Year of origin: 1977
Genre: Documentary Film
Locations of shooting: n/a

Credits
Production company: Wexler Film Productions (Los Angeles, CA)
First released by: IWF (Göttingen)
Distributor: IWF (Göttingen)
Producer: Gotthard Glatzer
Author: George C. Pimentel


Keywords: Astrophysik, Bodenproben, Chromatographie, Mars, Raumfahrt, unbemannte, Unbemannte Raumfahrt, Viking, astrophysics, chromatography, Mars, soil sample, unmanned spacecraft, Viking program
The Viking spacecraft explore the question of life elsewhere in our solar system. Exponential growth is introduced as a general characteristic of life under favorable conditions. This was the basis for one of the life-detection experiments on the Viking spacecraft landed on Mars. In the experiment, gas chromatography showed that O2 gas is formed when martian soil is exposed to water vapor. However, the rate of production doed not resemble exponential growth; an alternative reaction is proposed. Thus chemical rate behaviour distinguishes reaction types even on another planet many millions of miles away.

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Language: deu
Sound: Sound film
Aspect: n/a
Duration: 25 1/2 min

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