Biological life support systems for a Mars mission planetary base: Problems and prospects

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1741-1745

  Tikhomirov, A A ^a   Ushakova, S A ^a   Kovaleva, N P ^a   Lamaze, B ^b   Lobo, M ^b   Lasseur, Ch ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

BLSS; Matter turnover; Wastes utilization

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; BIOPHYSICS; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PROBLEM SOLVING;

BIOLOGICAL LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS; MARS MISSION PLANETARY BASE; MATTER TURNOVER; WASTES UTILIZATION;

LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS (SPACECRAFT);

EID: 35648949432     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2006.11.009     Document Type: Article

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