Jaws: Just add water system - A device for detection of nucleic acids in martian ice caps

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 518, 2002, Pages 309-312

  Hansen, Anders J ^a   Willerslev, Eske ^a   Mørk, Søren ^a   Hedegaard, Mads M ^a   Rønn, Regin ^a   Jeffares, Daniel C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); ICE; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PH EFFECTS; SALTS; WATER;

WATER SYSTEM;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036766101     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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