Epigenomics in an extraterrestrial environment: organ-specific alteration of DNA methylation and gene expression elicited by spaceflight in Arabidopsis thaliana [PDF]
BMC Genomics, 2019 Background Plants adapted to diverse environments on Earth throughout their evolutionary history, and developed mechanisms to thrive in a variety of terrestrial habitats.
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Effects of the Extraterrestrial Environment on Plants: Recommendations for Future Space Experiments for the MELiSSA Higher Plant Compartment [PDF]
Life, 2014 Due to logistical challenges, long-term human space exploration missions require a life support system capable of regenerating all the essentials for survival.
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Critical Electrochemistry Technologies Applicable in Space Exploration [PDF]
Advanced ScienceElectrochemistry is versatile, less subject to external influences, and has great potential for the exploration of the unpredictable space environment.
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Relationship between ices and gas phase organic compounds in simulated extraterrestrial environments. [PDF]
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Karst Cave as Terrestrial Simulation Platform to Test and Design Human Base in Lunar Lava Tube
Space: Science & Technology, 2022 Developing efficient approaches to building a suitable environment for humans on the moon play a key role in future long-term sustainable lunar exploration activities, which has motivated many countries to propose diverse plans to build a lunar base. The
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Insights into a remote cryosphere: a multi-method approach to assess permafrost occurrence at the Qugaqie basin, western Nyainqêntanglha Range, Tibetan Plateau [PDF]
The Cryosphere, 2021 Permafrost as a climate-sensitive parameter and its occurrence and distribution play an important role in the observation of global warming. However, field-based permafrost distribution data and information on the subsurface ice content in the large area
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On the Path to Space Mining and a Cosmic Sustainable Way of Socio-Natural Interaction [PDF]
Философия и космология, 2020 The transition of the world community to sustainable development will require not only the achievement of global sustainability, but also the same type of development outside the planet, especially in the case of space mining. By joining the cosmonautics,
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Statistical and superposed epoch study of dipolarization events using data from Wind perigee passes [PDF]
Annales Geophysicae, 2005 From 1995 to 2000, the Wind spacecraft spent over 500h in the magnetotail, much of it within ~2x104km of the predicted location of the neutral sheet.
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Special spherical mobile robot for planetary surface exploration: A review
International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems, 2023 Considering the requirements of high scientific return, low cost, less complexity, and more reliability for the robot proposed by the extreme environment exploration task on the planet surface, this article comprehensively reviews the history of the ...
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An overview of experimental simulations of microbial activity in early Earth
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2023 Microbial activity has shaped the evolution of the ocean and atmosphere throughout the Earth history. Thus, experimental simulations of microbial metabolism under the environment conditions of the early Earth can provide vital information regarding ...
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