BIOPAN experiment LICHENS on the Foton M2 mission: Pre-flight verification tests of the Rhizocarpon geographicum-granite ecosystem

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1665-1671

  de la Torre Noetzel, R ^a   Sancho, L G ^b   Pintado, A ^b   Rettberg, P ^c   Rabbow, E ^c   Panitz, C ^c   Deutschmann, U ^d   Reina, M ^a   Horneck, G ^c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE TÉCNICA AEROESPACIAL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^d AC Hispano Alemana   (Spain)

Author keywords

Lichens; Lithopanspermia; Photosynthetic activity; Space experiment; Survival

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; GRANITE; PHOTOSYNTHETIC MEMBRANES; SATELLITES; SPACE RESEARCH; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

LICHENS; LITHOPANSPERMIA; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTIVITY; SPACE EXPERIMENT; SURVIVAL;

FUNGI;

EID: 35548936188     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2007.02.022     Document Type: Article

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