Hygroscopic salts and the potential for life on mars

Astrobiology

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 617-628

  Davila, Alfonso F ^a   Duport, Luis Gago ^b   Melchiorri, Riccardo ^c   Jänchen, Jochen ^d   Valea, Sergio ^e   De Los Rios, Asunción ^e   Fairén, Alberto G ^a   Möhlmann, Diedrich ^f   McKay, Christopher P ^g   Ascaso, Carmen ^e   Wierzchos, Jacek ^e  

^a SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^c SRI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES WILDAU   (Germany)

^e CSIC   (Spain)

^f GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^g NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atacama Desert; Deliquescence; Endoliths; Evaporites; Hygroscopic salts; Life; Mars; Temperature; Water activity

Indexed keywords

HYGROSCOPIC AGENT; INORGANIC SALT; WATER;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; ASTROBIOLOGY; ASTRONOMY; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE; HUMIDITY; MICROCLIMATE; PRESSURE; WATER VAPOR;

ABSORPTION; CLIMATE; EXOBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HUMIDITY; HYGROSCOPIC AGENTS; MARS; PARTIAL PRESSURE; SALTS; STEAM; WATER;

EID: 77956160834     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2009.0421     Document Type: Article

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