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Science 25 April 1980:
Vol. 208. no. 4442, pp. 399 - 401
DOI: 10.1126/science.208.4442.399
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Corrections in the Pioneer Venus Sounder Probe Gas Chromatographic Analysis of the Lower Venus Atmosphere

VANCE I. OYAMA 1, GLENN C. CARLE 1, and FRITZ WOELLER 1

1 NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California 94035

Misidentification of two peaks from the Pioneer Venus sounder probe gas chromatograph (SPGC), also formerly known as the LGC, gave rise to quantitative errors in the abundances of oxygen, argon, and carbon monoxide. The argon abundance is estimated at 67 parts per million and that of carbon monoxide at 20 parts per million. At this time, no estimates for the oxygen abundance can be made.

Submitted on December 6, 1979
Revised on January 29, 1980


THIS ARTICLE HAS BEEN CITED BY OTHER ARTICLES:
Venus: Halide Cloud Condensation and Volatile Element Inventories.
J. S. LEWIS and B. FEGLEY JR. (1982)
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