1. Institute of General, Inorganic and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck (Austria);2. Institute of Physical Chemistry, University of Innsbruck, Innrain 52a, 6020 Innsbruck (Austria), Fax: (+43)?512‐507‐2925 http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/～c724117/
Abstract:
What's the matter? The laboratory Raman spectra for carbonic acid (H2CO3), both for the β‐polymorph and its amorphous state, are required to detect carbonic acid on the surface of the pole caps of Mars in 2009, when the Mars Microbeam Raman Spectrometer lands on the planet. The picture shows a martian crater with ice of unknown composition, possibly containing carbonic acid (image adapted from DLR, with permission from ESA, DLR, and FU Berlin –‐G. Neukum).
