Resistance of bacterial endospores to outer space for planetary protection purposes-experiment PROTECT of the EXPOSE-E Mission

Astrobiology

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 445-456

  Horneck, Gerda ^a   Moeller, Ralf ^a   Cadet, Jean ^b   Douki, Thierry ^b   Mancinelli, Rocco L ^c   Nicholson, Wayne L ^d   Panitz, Corinna ^e   Rabbow, Elke ^a   Rettberg, Petra ^a   Spry, Andrew ^f   Stackebrandt, Erko ^g   Vaishampayan, Parag ^f   Venkateswaran, Kasthuri J ^f  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^e RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIAL SPORE; MICROCLIMATE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SPACE FLIGHT; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

BACILLUS SUBTILIS; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; MARS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPACECRAFT; SPORES, BACTERIAL; TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RAYS;

BACILLUS PUMILUS SAFR-032; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84862021684     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2011.0737     Document Type: Article

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