Extended survival of several organisms and amino acids under simulated martian surface conditions

Icarus

Volumn 211, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1162-1178

  Johnson, A P ^a   Pratt, L M ^a   Vishnivetskaya, T ^b   Pfiffner, S ^c   Bryan, R A ^d   Dadachova, E ^d   Whyte, L ^e   Radtke, K ^e   Chan, E ^f   Tronick, S ^f   Borgonie, G ^g   Mancinelli, R L ^h   Rothschild, L J ⁱ   Rogoff, D A ⁱ   Horikawa, D D ⁱ   Onstott, T C ^f  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^d ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^h SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

ⁱ NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Exobiology; Mars; Photochemistry; Regoliths; Search for extraterrestrial life

Indexed keywords

EID: 79151472472     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.11.011     Document Type: Article

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