Microbial rock inhabitants survive hypervelocity impacts on mars-like host planets: First phase of lithopanspermia experimentally tested

Astrobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 17-44

  Horneck, Gerda ^a   Stöffler, Dieter ^b   Ott, Sieglinde ^c   Hornemann, Ulrich ^d   Cockell, Charles S ^e   Moeller, Ralf ^a,f   Meyer, Cornelia ^a,b   De Vera, Jean Pierre ^c   Fritz, Jörg ^b   Schade, Sara ^b   Artemieva, Natalia A ^g,h  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR HIGH SPEED DYNAMICS   (Germany)

^e OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE DSMZ GERMAN COLLECTION OF MICROORGANISMS AND CELL CULTURES   (Germany)

^g INSTITUTE OF GEOSPHERE DYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

^h PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ejecta; Impact; Interplanetary transfer of life; Lithopanspermia; Microbial survival; Shock pressure

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; CYANOBACTERIUM; LICHENS; MICROCLIMATE; MICROSCOPY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; REFRACTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; CYANOBACTERIA; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; LICHENS; MARS; METEOROIDS; MICROSCOPY; PRESSURE; REFRACTOMETRY; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TEMPERATURE;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); CHROOCOCCIDIOPSIS; XANTHORIA ELEGANS;

EID: 39749142110     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2007.0134     Document Type: Article

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