It will concentrate on testing the stability of the surface and gathering chemical and mineralogical data on the nearest rocks.
The framers of the convention deliberately made the pact as broad and as strict as possible, to stamp out even the most tentative first steps toward gathering precursor chemicals for weapons.
A State Department official, speaking anonymously to discuss internal decision making, said that American officials had been gathering intelligence on chemical weapons, and that the work of doctors and humanitarian groups provided "just another indicator".
This new JEM was developed according to a general strategy, comprising a literature search to identify chemicals, information gathering on occupations at risk and literature on occupational settings in which the selected chemicals were encountered and exposure measurements were performed.
With the DSSTox dataset containing 760,000 chemical substances, and with the growing volumes of associated data for each chemical, the gathering of feedback from users as they navigate through the data is a helpful and efficient approach to elevate data quality.
In an interview with CNN broadcast on Friday, Mr. Obama said the United States is "gathering information" about the chemical weapon reports, but he suggested that it is already clear that the incident will demand "America's attention".
These conditions present a significant challenge to spacecraft design and demand that rapid methods of chemical data gathering be implemented.
The investigation team will be charged with gathering proof of whether chemical weapons were used but not with determining which side used them if evidence of such attacks is found.
However, researchers are gathering convincing evidence of chemical "obesogens"—dietary, pharmaceutical, and industrial compounds that may alter metabolic processes and predispose some people to gain weight., Obesity is rising steadily around the world.
"I want a stable euro area," Ms. Merkel told a gathering of mining, energy and chemical industry unions in Hanover.
