PMID- 18598140 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20090123 LR - 20171116 IS - 1557-8070 (Electronic) IS - 1557-8070 (Linking) VI - 8 IP - 3 DP - 2008 Jun TI - The Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) experiment for NASA's 2009 Mars Science Laboratory. PG - 605-12 LID - 10.1089/ast.2007.0157 [doi] AB - We present a summary of the physical principles and design of the Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) instrument onboard NASA's 2009 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. The DAN instrument will use the method of neutron-neutron activation analysis in a space application to study the abundance and depth distribution of water in the martian subsurface along the path of the MSL rover. FAU - Litvak, M L AU - Litvak ML AD - Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia. Litvak@mx.iki.rssi.ru FAU - Mitrofanov, I G AU - Mitrofanov IG FAU - Barmakov, Yu N AU - Barmakov YN FAU - Behar, A AU - Behar A FAU - Bitulev, A AU - Bitulev A FAU - Bobrovnitsky, Yu AU - Bobrovnitsky Y FAU - Bogolubov, E P AU - Bogolubov EP FAU - Boynton, W V AU - Boynton WV FAU - Bragin, S I AU - Bragin SI FAU - Churin, S AU - Churin S FAU - Grebennikov, A S AU - Grebennikov AS FAU - Konovalov, A AU - Konovalov A FAU - Kozyrev, A S AU - Kozyrev AS FAU - Kurdumov, I G AU - Kurdumov IG FAU - Krylov, A AU - Krylov A FAU - Kuznetsov, Yu P AU - Kuznetsov YP FAU - Malakhov, A V AU - Malakhov AV FAU - Mokrousov, M I AU - Mokrousov MI FAU - Ryzhkov, V I AU - Ryzhkov VI FAU - Sanin, A B AU - Sanin AB FAU - Shvetsov, V N AU - Shvetsov VN FAU - Smirnov, G A AU - Smirnov GA FAU - Sholeninov, S AU - Sholeninov S FAU - Timoshenko, G N AU - Timoshenko GN FAU - Tomilina, T M AU - Tomilina TM FAU - Tuvakin, D V AU - Tuvakin DV FAU - Tretyakov, V I AU - Tretyakov VI FAU - Troshin, V S AU - Troshin VS FAU - Uvarov, V N AU - Uvarov VN FAU - Varenikov, A AU - Varenikov A FAU - Vostrukhin, A AU - Vostrukhin A LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Astrobiology JT - Astrobiology JID - 101088083 RN - 0 (Soil) RN - 7YNJ3PO35Z (Hydrogen) SB - IM MH - Hydrogen/analysis MH - *Laboratories MH - *Mars MH - *Neutrons MH - Numerical Analysis, Computer-Assisted MH - Soil/analysis MH - Space Flight/*instrumentation MH - United States MH - *United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration EDAT- 2008/07/05 09:00 MHDA- 2009/01/24 09:00 CRDT- 2008/07/05 09:00 PHST- 2008/07/05 09:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2009/01/24 09:00 [medline] PHST- 2008/07/05 09:00 [entrez] AID - 10.1089/ast.2007.0157 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Astrobiology. 2008 Jun;8(3):605-12. doi: 10.1089/ast.2007.0157.