Nannobacteria are alive on Earth as well as Mars

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3111, Issue , 1997, Pages 406-419

  Folk, Robert L ^a   Lynch, F Leo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Artifacts; Clays; Extraterrestrial life; High magnification SEM; Martian meteorite; Mineral precipitation; Nannobacteria

Indexed keywords

CARBONATE MINERALS; CLAY; EARTH (PLANET); MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; METEORITES; MORPHOLOGY;

NANNOBACTERIA;

BACTERIA;

EID: 0031301340     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.278795     Document Type: Conference Paper

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