Recovery and Identification of Viable Bacteria Immured in Glacial Ice

Icarus

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 479-485

  Christner, Brent C ^a   Mosley Thompson, Ellen ^b   Thompson, Lonnie G ^b   Zagorodnov, Victor ^b   Sandman, Kathleen ^a   Reeve, John N ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Europa; Exobiology; Ices; Mars

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000991157     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/1999.6288     Document Type: Article

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