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Carbon delivered to the Earth by interplanetary dnst particles may have been an important source of pre-biotic organic matter (Anders, 1989). Interplanetary dust is shown to deliver an order-of-magnitude higher surface concent rat on of carbon onto Mars than onto Earth, suggesting interplanetary dust may be an important source of carbon on Mars as well.
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Flynn, G.J. (1996). The Delivery of Organic Matter from Asteroids and Comets to the Early Surface of Mars. In: Rickman, H., Valtonen, M.J. (eds) Worlds in Interaction: Small Bodies and Planets of the Solar System. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0209-1_58
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