Earth analogs for Martian life. Microbes in evaporites, a new model system for life on Mars

Icarus

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 1990, Pages 246-260

  Rothschild, Lynn J ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; ICE; NITROGEN; WATER;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIUM; BIOLOGY; CYANOBACTERIUM; HALOBACTERIUM; METABOLISM; MICROCLIMATE; NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 52-50; NASA PROGRAM EXOBIOLOGY; TEMPERATURE;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 52-50; NASA PROGRAM EXOBIOLOGY;

ATMOSPHERE; BACTERIA; CARBON; CYANOBACTERIA; EARTH (PLANET); EXOBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HALOBACTERIUM; ICE; MARS; NITROGEN; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 0025697731     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0019-1035(90)90188-F     Document Type: Article

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