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Crop growth and viability of seeds on Mars and Moon soil simulants
Open Agriculture, 2019 If humans are going to establish a base on the Moon or on Mars they will have to grow their own crops. An option is to use Lunar and Martian regolith. These regoliths are not available for plant growth experiments, therefore NASA has developed regolith ...
Wamelink G.W.W. +3 more
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Eurypsychrophilic acidophiles: From (meta)genomes to low-temperature biotechnologies
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Low temperature and acidic environments encompass natural milieus such as acid rock drainage in Antarctica and anthropogenic sites including drained sulfidic sediments in Scandinavia.
Mark Dopson +5 more
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Microbial mediation of textures and minerals – terrestrial or parent body processes?
Open Astronomy, 2019 Evolution of chondritic parent body is influenced by thermal, impact metamorphism and aqueous alteration, studied in Mező-Madaras, Knyahinya, Mócs and Nyírábrány in aspect of high resolution in situ textural, mineralogical and organic geochemical ...
Polgári Márta +5 more
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Communicative & Integrative Biology, 2021 The fields of developmental biology, biomedicine, and artificial life are being revolutionized by advances in synthetic morphology. The next phase of synthetic biology and bioengineering is resulting in the construction of novel organisms (biobots ...
Charles I. Abramson, Michael Levin
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Histoire des concepts de la vie extra-terrestre
Cahiers François Viète, 2003 Exobiology (or Bioastronomy or Astrobiology—with a few nuances) is a recent science in its own right, the result of the meeting of several disciplines (astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, palaeontology), at the same time as the conquest of space was ...
Florence Raulin Cerceau
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ESA ExoMars: Pre-launch PanCam Geometric Modeling and Accuracy Assessment [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2014 ExoMars is the flagship mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) Aurora Programme. The mobile scientific platform, or rover, will carry a drill and a suite of instruments dedicated to exobiology and geochemistry research.
D. Li, R Li, A. Yilmaz
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ChallengesSodium perchlorate is a toxic salt-based compound found both terrestrially, (due to pollution) and extraterrestrially on the surface of Mars. Perchlorate pollution poses a risk to agricultural-based activities as once it enters soils/waterways it can be ...
Daniel Keaney +5 more
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Establishment of the Coast Range ophiolite microbial observatory (CROMO): drilling objectives and preliminary outcomes [PDF]
Scientific Drilling, 2013 This project aimed to establish a subsurface microbial observatory in ultramafic rocks, by drilling into an actively serpentinizing peridotite body, characterizing cored rocks, and outfitting the boreholes for a program of long-term observation and ...
D. Cardace +6 more
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Methanogens Through Time and Space: Impact on Earth’s Planetary Evolution and Biogeochemistry
GeosciencesMethanogens, or methanogenic archaea (MA), are among the most ancient and widely distributed microorganisms, characterized by a unique metabolism that generates methane (CH4) as the terminal product of anaerobic respiration.
Paxton Tomko +4 more
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Sedimentology, Volume 73, Issue 5, Page 1842-1866, August 2026.ABSTRACT The Paleoarchean Antarctic Creek Member of the Mount Ada Basalt, Eastern Pilbara Terrane, Western Australia, includes beds of jasper and white chert composed of sand‐sized silica granules that often contain or are mixed with silt‐sized particles of haematite.
Donald R. Lowe, Gary R. Byerly
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