Characterization of a Simulated Martian Regolith Ecosystem by Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Relaxometry and Fourier Transform Infrared (FT-IR) and Visible (VIS)-Near-Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopies

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