Intracrystalline lipids within sulfates from the Haughton Impact Structure-Implications for survival of lipids on Mars

Icarus

Volumn 187, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 422-429

  Bowden, Stephen A ^a   Parnell, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; Exobiology; Mars; Mineralogy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847373378     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2006.10.013     Document Type: Article

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