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Direct Molecular-scale Insight into Soluble Organic Matter from the Murchison and Aguas Zarcas Meteorites Enabled by 21T FT-ICR MS and Single-molecule HR-AFM Imaging

  • Authors: Joseph W. Frye-Jones, Martha L. Aguilera, Percy Zahl, Alan G. Marshall, Ryan P. Rodgers

Joseph W. Frye-Jones et al 2026 The Planetary Science Journal 7 .

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 10.

Presented here are HR-AFM images of molecules found in the acetone extract of Murchison with potential structures provided beneath. The light gray scale bar shown on the left in each image is 5 Å long. The image grayscale represents the frequency shift (typical range: –10 Hz, …, +5 Hz), where brighter (more positive shift) means a more repulsive force is detected, whereas darker (more negative shift) means an attractive force is acting on the CO probe. The –R side groups of each range from –H, –CH3, –OH, –NH2, etc. While key core structures are clear, uncertainty remains about nonplanar side groups at the edges, which appear mostly very bright (partially out of the molecular core plane).

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