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Microbial Endolithic Community at Meteor Crater

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, EarlyView.
Abstract Postimpact recovery and evolution in response to climate changes produced a modern ecosystem at Meteor Crater dominated by a grassland and woodland of piñon and juniper, which has been used to evaluate floral and megafaunal consequences of impact cratering during the Phanerozoic Eon of complex life.
David A. Kring, Charles S. Cockell
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Investigating Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Bioremediation through Microbial Action Using Raman Spectroscopy

Challenges
Sodium 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, Venkata V. B. Yallapragada, Liam O’Faolain, Ganga Chinna Rao Devarapu, Karen Finn, Brigid Lucey   +5 more
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Microbially generated ferruginous crusts: A potential biosignature of continental input in coastal settings

Sedimentology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Thin ferruginous sandy crusts are common on top of sandstone beds in the Early Permian post‐glacial deposits of the Paraná Basin in southern Brazil. These crusts usually preserve wrinkle structures, suggesting that they might be a product of microbial mediation.
Patrícia Weschenfelder, Renata Guimarães Netto, Alisson Klayton Martins   +2 more
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Identification of the Beagle 2 lander on Mars [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2017
The 2003 Beagle 2 Mars lander has been identified in Isidis Planitia at 90.43° E, 11.53° N, close to the predicted target of 90.50° E, 11.53° N. Beagle 2 was an exobiology lander designed to look for isotopic and compositional signs of life on Mars, as ...
J. C. Bridges, J. Clemmet, M. Croon, M. R. Sims, D. Pullan, J.-P. Muller, Y. Tao, S. Xiong, A. R. Putri, T. Parker, S. M. R. Turner, J. M. Pillinger   +11 more
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A History of the Extraterrestrial Life Debate

Zygon, 1997
From antiquity to the present, humans have debated whether intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe. This presentation will survey this debate, examining the roles played in it by science, religion, philosophy, and other areas of human learning.
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Global Comparison of Aqueous Geochemistry and Dissolved H2/CH4 in Continental Low Temperature Serpentinization–Influenced Environments

Hydrological Processes, Volume 40, Issue 3, March 2026.
Conceptual diagram of hydrological and geochemical processes within the Santa Elena Ophiolite, Costa Rica. It highlights watershed cross‐sections, soil genesis, hyperalkaline Type II waters (pH > 11.6) with calcite crust and trapped H2/CH4 gases, seepage into surface waters, storm‐impacted stream profiles, weathered vs.
Alexandra May, Ricardo Sánchez‐Murillo, Matthew O. Schrenk, Esteban Gazel, J. Maarten de Moor, Christian Birkel, Xiaoqiang Li, Danelle Carr, María Marta Chavarría   +8 more
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Light Regimes Shape Utilization of Extracellular Organic C and N in a Cyanobacterial Biofilm

mBio, 2016
Although it is becoming clear that many microbial primary producers can also play a role as organic consumers, we know very little about the metabolic regulation of photoautotroph organic matter consumption.
Rhona K. Stuart, Xavier Mayali, Amy A. Boaro, Adam Zemla, R. Craig Everroad, Daniel Nilson, Peter K. Weber, Mary Lipton, Brad M. Bebout, Jennifer Pett-Ridge, Michael P. Thelen   +10 more
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Surface‐Driven Protocell Formation in Geologically Relevant Early Earth Environment

ChemSystemsChem, Volume 8, Issue 2, March 2026.
Illustration of a prebiotic early‐Earth environment showing cell‐like protocells (blue spheres) and other complex organic molecules (pink and green spheres) distributed across terrestrial surfaces and within subsurface niches. Volcanic landscapes and mineral‐rich substrates provide diverse geochemical settings for the assembly and evolution of ...
Pamela Knoll, Silvia Holler
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L’exobiologie, l’imaginaire et le symbolique

Cahiers François Viète, 2003
This text puts forward the idea that the commentaries in natural language that necessarily accompany the experimental activities of exobiology (laboratory experiments, space missions, astronomical observations, etc.) inevitably belong to the novel.
Jean Schneider
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Multidisciplinary Analyses of Terrestrial Samples Used to Interpret an Inorganic Origin (Anhydrite:Ce3+) for the 304 and 325‐nm Doublet Fluorescence Detected by the Mars 2020 SHERLOC Instrument at Jezero Crater

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 131, Issue 3, March 2026.
Abstract Doublet fluorescence at 304 and 325‐nm under deep ultraviolet (DUV) excitation was detected on Mars at Jezero crater by the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) instrument onboard the Mars 2020 rover Perseverance.
N. C. Haney, R. V. Morris, R. S. Jakubek, J. V. Clark, J. I. Simon, W. P. Buckley, R. T. Downs, E. B. Rampe, R. M. G. Armytage, T. G. Graff, A. S. Burton, F. M. McCubbin, E. L. Berger, V. M. Tu, P. D. Casbeer, S. A. Mertzman, K. H. Williford, E. L. Scheller, T. Fornaro, S. Siljeström, A. Steele, K. P. Hand, T. J. Lapen   +22 more
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