Exobiology and future Mars missions: The search for Mars' earliest biosphere

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 1986, Pages 269-285

  McKay, Christopher P ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM SILICATE;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; BIOGENESIS; BIOLOGY; CLAY; COLD CLIMATE; DESERT CLIMATE; FOSSIL; GEOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 52-40; NASA PROGRAM EXOBIOLOGY; SEDIMENT; SPACE FLIGHT;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 52-40; NASA PROGRAM EXOBIOLOGY;

ALUMINUM SILICATES; ANTARCTIC REGIONS; ATMOSPHERE; BIOGENESIS; COLD CLIMATE; DESERT CLIMATE; EARTH (PLANET); EXOBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; FOSSILS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; GEOLOGY; MARS; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 0023039810     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0273-1177(86)90096-7     Document Type: Article

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