Aubrey Andrew D, Chalmers John H, Bada Jeffrey L, Grunthaner Frank J, Amashukeli Xenia, Willis Peter, Skelley Alison M, Mathies Richard A, Quinn Richard C, Zent Aaron P, Ehrenfreund Pascale, Amundson Ron, Glavin Daniel P, Botta Oliver, Barron Laurence, Blaney Diana L, Clark Benton C, Coleman Max, Hofmann Beda A, Josset Jean-Luc, Rettberg Petra, Ride Sally, Robert François, Sephton Mark A, Yen Albert
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91109, USA.
Astrobiology. 2008 Jun;8(3):583-95. doi: 10.1089/ast.2007.0169.
The Urey organic and oxidant detector consists of a suite of instruments designed to search for several classes of organic molecules in the martian regolith and ascertain whether these compounds were produced by biotic or abiotic processes using chirality measurements. These experiments will also determine the chemical stability of organic molecules within the host regolith based on the presence and chemical reactivity of surface and atmospheric oxidants. Urey has been selected for the Pasteur payload on the European Space Agency's (ESA's) upcoming 2013 ExoMars rover mission. The diverse and effective capabilities of Urey make it an integral part of the payload and will help to achieve a large portion of the mission's primary scientific objective: "to search for signs of past and present life on Mars." This instrument is named in honor of Harold Urey for his seminal contributions to the fields of cosmochemistry and the origin of life.
尤里有机和氧化剂探测器由一套仪器组成，旨在在火星风化层中寻找几类有机分子，并通过手性测量确定这些化合物是由生物过程还是非生物过程产生的。这些实验还将根据表面和大气氧化剂的存在及化学反应性，确定宿主风化层中有机分子的化学稳定性。尤里探测器已被选为欧洲航天局（ESA）即将于2013年执行的火星外生物学漫游者任务中巴斯特载荷的一部分。尤里探测器多样且有效的能力使其成为该载荷不可或缺的一部分，并将有助于实现该任务的大部分主要科学目标：“寻找火星上过去和现在生命的迹象”。该仪器以哈罗德·尤里的名字命名，以表彰他在宇宙化学和生命起源领域的开创性贡献。
