Liquid water and life on Mars

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3441, Issue , 1998, Pages 30-43

  Levin, Gilbert V ^a   Levin, Ron L ^b  

^a Biospherics Incorporated   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Extraterrestrial life; Life detection; Life on Mars; Mars; Viking labeled release experiment; Water on Mars

Indexed keywords

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGY; MICROORGANISMS; MOISTURE; PLANETS; SOILS; SPACE APPLICATIONS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; WATER;

BIOLOGICAL INTERPRETATIONS; MARS; MICRON AMOUNTS; SOIL MOISTURE; TERRESTIAL SOILS;

BIOLOGY;

EID: 0002821482     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.319849     Document Type: Conference Paper

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