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A Habitable Fluvio-Lacustrine Environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale Crater, Mars

scientific article

A Hydrothermal-Sedimentary Context for the Origin of Life. ⬇️

scientific article published on 28 February 2018

A Statistical Approach to Illustrate the Challenge of Astrobiology for Public Outreach

scientific article published on 26 October 2017

An integrated exobiology package for the search for life on Mars

scientific article published in January 1999

Anaerobic microorganisms in astrobiological analogue environments: from field site to culture collection

scientific article published on 31 July 2017

Archean (3.33 Ga) microbe-sediment systems were diverse and flourished in a hydrothermal context

scholarly article

AstRoMap European Astrobiology Roadmap

scientific article

Astrobiology and the Possibility of Life on Earth and Elsewhere…

scientific article published on 8 September 2015

Astrochemistry on the EXPOSE/ISS and BIOPAN/Foton experiments

Beyond Chloride Brines: Variable Metabolomic Responses in the Anaerobic Organism Yersinia intermedia MASE-LG-1 to NaCl and MgSO4 at Identical Water Activity.

scientific article published on 27 February 2018

Biosignature stability in space enables their use for life detection on Mars

scientific article published on 9 September 2022

Biosignatures for Astrobiology

scientific article published on 22 August 2015

Biosignatures on Mars: What, Where, and How? Implications for the Search for Martian Life

scientific article

Combined SEM (secondary electrons, backscatter, cathodoluminescence) and atomic force microscope investigation of fracture surfaces in Martian meteorite ALH84001: preliminary results

Conference summary: life detection in extraterrestrial samples

scientific article published in February 2013

Creating Habitable Zones, at all Scales, from Planets to Mud Micro-Habitats, on Earth and on Mars

article published in 2007

Darwin--a mission to detect and search for life on extrasolar planets

scientific article

Darwin—an experimental astronomy mission to search for extrasolar planets

article

Dating carbonaceous matter in archean cherts by electron paramagnetic resonance

scientific article (publication date: February 2013)

Definition and use of functional analogues in planetary exploration

scientific article published in March 2021

Diagenesis and clay mineral formation at Gale Crater, Mars

scientific article published on 18 January 2015

ESSC-ESF position paper--science-driven scenario for space exploration: report from the European Space Sciences Committee (ESSC).

scientific article published on January 2009

Early Archean fossil bacteria and biofilms in hydrothermally-influenced sediments from the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa

article

Earth as a Tool for Astrobiology—A European Perspective

scientific article published on 20 June 2017

Electron paramagnetic resonance study of a photosynthetic microbial mat and comparison with Archean cherts

scientific article

Erratum to Implications of a 3.472–3.333-Gyr-old subaerial microbial mat from the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa for the UV environmental conditions on the early Earth.

scientific article

Evolution. Life on the early Earth: a sedimentary view

scientific article published in April 2005

Experimental silicification of the extremophilic Archaea Pyrococcus abyssi and Methanocaldococcus jannaschii: applications in the search for evidence of life in early Earth and extraterrestrial rocks

scientific article published on 28 July 2009

Final Report of the Mars Sample Return Science Planning Group 2 (MSPG2)

scientific article published in June 2022

Fluids during diagenesis and sulfate vein formation in sediments at Gale crater, Mars ⬇️

scholarly article

From black-and-white to colour in the Silurian

scholarly article by Annalisa Ferretti published in December 2012

Geochemistry. Life on an anaerobic planet

scientific article

Geology, Life and Habitability

scholarly article by G. Southam published in January 2007

Geophysical and Atmospheric Evolution of Habitable Planets

article

Geyserite in hot-spring siliceous sinter: Window on Earth's hottest terrestrial (paleo)environment and its extreme life

article

Habitability on Early Mars and the Search for Biosignatures with the ExoMars Rover.

scientific article published in July 2017

Habitability on Mars from a microbial point of view.

scientific article

Heterogeneous solid/gas chemistry of organic compounds related to comets, meteorites, Titan, and Mars: Laboratory and in lower Earth orbit experiments

Identification of morphological biosignatures in Martian analogue field specimens using in situ planetary instrumentation

scientific article

Impact of Simulated Martian Conditions on (Facultatively) Anaerobic Bacterial Strains from Different Mars Analogue Sites

scientific article published on 22 January 2020

Implications of a 3.472-3.333 Gyr-old subaerial microbial mat from the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa for the UV environmental conditions on the early Earth

scientific article (publication date: 29 October 2006)

Implications of in situ calcification for photosynthesis in a ~3.3Ga-old microbial biofilm from the Barberton greenstone belt, South Africa

article

Iron-framboids in the hydrocarbon-related Middle Devonian Hollard Mound of the Anti-Atlas mountain range in Morocco: Evidence of potential microbial biosignatures

scientific article published in July 2012

Isotope ratios of H, C, and O in CO2 and H2O of the martian atmosphere

scientific article

Lack of correlation of desiccation and radiation tolerance in microorganisms from diverse extreme environments tested under anoxic conditions.

scientific article published in March 2018

Life on Mars: evaluation of the evidence within Martian meteorites ALH84001, Nakhla, and Shergotty

Limits of Life and the Habitability of Mars: The ESA Space Experiment BIOMEX on the ISS

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Magmatic precipitation as a possible origin of Noachian clays on Mars

Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group Goal One: Determine If Life Ever Arose on Mars ⬇️

scientific article published on November 1, 2010

Mechanistic Morphogenesis of Organo-Sedimentary Structures Growing Under Geochemically Stressed Conditions: Keystone to Proving the Biogenicity of Some Archaean Stromatolites?

scholarly article

Metallomics in deep time and the influence of ocean chemistry on the metabolic landscapes of Earth's earliest ecosystems

scientific article published on 18 March 2020

Microbial Markers Profile in Anaerobic Mars Analogue Environments Using the LDChip (Life Detector Chip) Antibody Microarray Core of the SOLID (Signs of Life Detector) Platform

scientific article published on 18 September 2019

Microfacies and origin of some Archean cherts (Pilbara, Australia)

article

Microscopic physical biomarkers in carbonate hot springs: implications in the search for life on Mars

scientific article

Mineralization and Preservation of an extremotolerant Bacterium Isolated from an Early Mars Analog Environment

scientific article published on 18 August 2017

Morphologic and spectral investigation of exceptionally well-preserved bacterial biofilms from the Oligocene Enspel formation, Germany

article

Most ancient evidence for life in the Barberton greenstone belt: Microbial mats and biofabrics of the ∼3.47 Ga Middle Marker horizon

scholarly article

Multiplication of microbes below 0.690 water activity: implications for terrestrial and extraterrestrial life ⬇️

scientific article

NRA analyses of N and C in hydromuscovite aggregates from a 3.5Ga chert from Kittys Gap, Pilbara, Australia

article

Nanoscale 3D quantitative imaging of 1.88 Ga Gunflint microfossils reveals novel insights into taphonomic and biogenic characters

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

On biosignatures for Mars

scientific article published in 2021

Planetary Protection and Mars Special Regions--A Suggestion for Updating the Definition

scientific article published on 05 February 2016

Planning Implications Related to Sterilization-Sensitive Science Investigations Associated with Mars Sample Return (MSR)

scientific article published in June 2022

Potential fossil endoliths in vesicular pillow basalt, Coral Patch Seamount, eastern North Atlantic Ocean

scientific article published on 29 August 2011

Prebiotic Significance of Extraterrestrial Ice Photochemistry: Detection of Hydantoin in Organic Residues ⬇️

scientific article published on November 7, 2011

Preliminary Planning for Mars Sample Return (MSR) Curation Activities in a Sample Receiving Facility (SRF)

scientific article published in June 2022

Preservation and evolution of organic matter during experimental fossilisation of the hyperthermophilic archaea Methanocaldococcus jannaschii

scientific article

Preservation of organic matter in the STONE 6 artificial meteorite experiment

Raman Imaging of Metastable Opal in Carbonaceous Microfossils of the 700–800 Ma Old Draken Formation ⬇️

scientific article published on December 31, 2012

Rationale and Proposed Design for a Mars Sample Return (MSR) Science Program

scientific article published in June 2022

Report of the COSPAR Mars Special Regions Colloquium

journal article

Report of the workshop for life detection in samples from Mars

Science and Curation Considerations for the Design of a Mars Sample Return (MSR) Sample Receiving Facility (SRF)

scientific article published in June 2022

Separation of amino acid enantiomers VIA chiral derivatization and non-chiral gas chromatography

scientific article published on 8 December 2007

Space as a Tool for Astrobiology: Review and Recommendations for Experimentations in Earth Orbit and Beyond

scientific article published on 20 June 2017

Stephen Jay Gould, les procaryotes et leur évolution dans le contexte géologique

scientific article published in 2003

Supporting Mars exploration: BIOMEX in Low Earth Orbit and further astrobiological studies on the Moon using Raman and PanCam technology

Testing the ability of the ExoMars 2018 payload to document geological context and potential habitability on Mars

article published in 2015

The 3.466 Ga “Kitty's Gap Chert,” an early Archean microbial ecosystem

scientific article published in 2006

The AMINO experiment: a laboratory for astrochemistry and astrobiology on the EXPOSE-R facility of the International Space Station

The AMINO experiment: exposure of amino acids in the EXPOSE-R experiment on the International Space Station and in laboratory

article

The Close-Up Imager Onboard the ESA ExoMars Rover: Objectives, Description, Operations, and Science Validation Activities

scientific article

The Geology and Habitability of Terrestrial Planets: Fundamental Requirements for Life

scholarly article by G. Southam published in May 2007

The Habitability of Venus and a Comparison to Early Earth

scientific article published on 7 November 2022

The PROCESS experiment: an astrochemistry laboratory for solid and gaseous organic samples in low-earth orbit

scientific article published on May 2012

The PROCESS experiment: exposure of amino acids in the EXPOSE-E experiment on the international space station and in laboratory simulations

scientific article published in May 2012

The Scientific Importance of Returning Airfall Dust as a Part of Mars Sample Return (MSR)

scientific article published in June 2022

The early record of life

scientific article

The fate of amino acids during simulated meteoritic impact

scientific article published in December 2009

The potential science and engineering value of samples delivered to Earth by Mars sample return

scientific article published in March 2019

The responses of an anaerobic microorganism, Yersinia intermedia MASE-LG-1 to individual and combined simulated Martian stresses

scientific article published on 25 October 2017

The simulated silicification of bacteria--new clues to the modes and timing of bacterial preservation and implications for the search for extraterrestrial microfossils

scientific article published in January 2002

Time-Sensitive Aspects of Mars Sample Return (MSR) Science

scientific article published in June 2022

Volatile, isotope, and organic analysis of martian fines with the Mars Curiosity rover

scientific article

Volcaniclastic habitats for early life on Earth and Mars: A case study from ∼3.5Ga-old rocks from the Pilbara, Australia

scientific article published in August 2011

Where do we go from here? Astrobiology editorial board opinions

scientific article

Workshop to develop deep-life continental scientific drilling projects

scientific article published in 2015

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