Natural Transfer of Viable Microbes in Space: 1. From Mars to Earth and Earth to Mars

Icarus

Volumn 145, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 391-427

  Mileikowsky, Curt ^a   Cucinotta, Francis A ^b   Wilson, John W ^c   Gladman, Brett ^f   Horneck, Gerda ^d   Lindegren, Lennart ^f   Melosh, Jay ^e   Rickman, Hans ^f   Valtonen, Mauri ^f   Zheng, J Q ^f  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f NONE

Author keywords

Cosmic rays; Cratering; Exobiology; Mars; Meteorites

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; BIOLOGY; COSMIC RADIATION; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROCLIMATE; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; THEORETICAL MODEL; VACUUM;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; COSMIC RADIATION; DNA, BACTERIAL; EARTH (PLANET); ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; EXOBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI; MARS; METEOROIDS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RADIATION TOLERANCE; SPORES, BACTERIAL; VACUUM;

EID: 0034198199     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6317     Document Type: Article

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