Free Energies of Reaction for Aqueous Glycine Condensation Chemistry at Extreme Temperatures
This book is Open Access. A digital copy can be downloaded for free from Wiley Online Library.
Explores the behavior of carbon in minerals, melts, and fluids under extreme conditions
Carbon trapped in diamonds and carbonate-bearing rocks in subduction zones are examples of the continuing exchange of substantial carbon ...
Matthew Kroonblawd, Nir Goldman
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Learning Astrobiology 101 with experiments in Baja California, Mexico [PDF]
We present our experience teaching the subject ‘Astrobiology 101’ (“Introducción a la Astrobiología”, in Spanish), given in the University of Baja California at Ensenada, Mexico, since 2004 up to the present.
Vázquez Roberto, Núñez Patricia G.
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Extremophiles: Link between earth and astrobiology [PDF]
Astrobiology studies the origin, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe. The most promising worlds in Solar system, beyond Earth, which may harbor life are Mars and Jovian moon Europa.
Stojanović Dejan B. +5 more
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Red-edge position of habitable exoplanets around M-dwarfs
One of the possible signs of life on distant habitable exoplanets is the red-edge, which is a rise in the reflectivity of planets between visible and near-infrared (NIR) wavelengths.
Kenji Takizawa +4 more
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Metagenomic insights into S(0) precipitation in a terrestrial subsurface lithoautotrophic ecosystem
The Frasassi and Acquasanta Terme cave systems in Italy host isolated lithoautotrophic ecosystems characterized by sulfur-oxidizing biofilms with up to 50% S(0) by mass.
Trinity eHamilton +6 more
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The Martian subsurface is more favorable for organic preservation than its surface because of the shielding effect of rocks from cosmic rays and UV radiation with increasing depth.
Laura J. Bonales +3 more
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Machine Learning Algorithms Applied to Identify Microbial Species by Their Motility
(1) Background: Future missions to potentially habitable places in the Solar System require biochemistry-independent methods for detecting potential alien life forms.
Max Riekeles +2 more
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Limits of life and the habitability of Mars: The ESA space experiment BIOMEX on the ISS [PDF]
BIOMEX (BIOlogy and Mars EXperiment) is an ESA/Roscosmos space exposure experiment housed within the exposure facility EXPOSE-R2 outside the Zvezda module on the International Space Station (ISS).
Alawi, Mashal +9 more
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A sustainable culture of tardigrades (Hypsibius dujardini) for astrobiological laboratory activities [PDF]
Tardigrades are microscopic organisms that have gained importance in astrobiology in recent years. They have extreme survival ability and can enter into a state of latency for several years called cryptobiosis.
Núñez Patricia G. +2 more
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The archaeal class Halobacteria and astrobiology: Knowledge gaps and research opportunities
Water bodies on Mars and the icy moons of the outer solar system are now recognized as likely being associated with high levels of salt. Therefore, the study of high salinity environments and their inhabitants has become increasingly relevant for ...
Jia-Hui Wu +8 more
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