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An assessment of the meteoritic contribution to the Martian soil

scholarly article

Antarctic Dry Valleys and indigenous weathering in Mars meteorites: Implications for water and life on Mars

scientific article

Antibody binding in altered gravity: implications for immunosorbent assay during space flight.

scientific article published on December 2003

Aqueous alteration of the Bali CV3 chondrite: evidence from mineralogy, mineral chemistry, and oxygen isotopic compositions

scientific article

Bacterial mineralization patterns in basaltic aquifers: implications for possible life in martian meteorite ALH84001.

scientific article

Biohazard potential of putative Martian organisms during missions to Mars.

scientific article published on April 2007

Carbon abundance and silicate mineralogy of anhydrous interplanetary dust particles

scientific article published on 01 January 1993

Clast-Laden Nature and the Origin of Luna 24 Olivine-Vitrophyres

book section published in 1978

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

Detection of biomarkers of viable life in using immunoassay

Development of the MASSE instrument: immunoassay detection of organic compounds in soil and Mars regolith simulant

Direct detection of projectile relics from the end of the lunar basin-forming epoch

scientific article published on 17 May 2012

Earth's earliest biosphere-a proposal to develop a collection of curated archean geologic reference materials

scientific article published on January 2003

Electron microscopy of fine-grained extraterrestrial materials

Elongated prismatic magnetite crystals in ALH84001 carbonate globules: potential Martian magnetofossils

scientific article published on December 2000

Investigations into an unknown organism on the martian meteorite Allan Hills 84001.

scholarly article

JSC-1: A New Lunar Soil Simulant

lunar surface document

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

Life on Mars: new evidence from martian meteorites

article

Lithification of Vitric- and Clastic-Matrix Breccias - SEM Petrography

book section published in 1976

Lunar soil evolution processes and Apollo 16 core 60013/60014.

scientific article published on March 1995

Magnetofossils from ancient Mars: a robust biosignature in the martian meteorite ALH84001.

scientific article

Martian soil component in impact glasses in a Martian meteorite

scholarly article published in November 1999

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

scientific article

Morphology and related chemistry of small lunar particles from tranquillity base

scientific article published on January 1970

No ‘nanofossils’ in martian meteorite

scientific article published in Nature

Origin and Modal Petrography of Luna 24 Soils

book section published in 1978

Origins of magnetite nanocrystals in Martian meteorite ALH84001

scholarly article

Putative Indigenous Carbon-Bearing Alteration Features in Martian Meteorite Yamato 000593

scientific article (publication date: February 2014)

Re-examination of the formation ages of the Apollo 16 regolith breccias

scholarly article

Search for past life on Mars: possible relic biogenic activity in martian meteorite ALH84001

scientific article

Space Resources

NASA Lunar Architecture document

The El Chichón stratospheric cloud: Solid particulates and settling rates

The case for relic life on Mars

scientific article published on December 1997

The nature and origin of rims on lunar soil grains

scientific article (publication date: June 1997)

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 of flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToFSIMS) of a number of hopanoids

Toxicity of lunar dust assessed in inhalation-exposed rats

journal article published in 2013

Truncated hexa-octahedral magnetite crystals in ALH84001: presumptive biosignatures

scientific article (publication date: 27 February 2001)

Unusual olivine and pyroxene composition in interplanetary dust and unequilibrated ordinary chondrites

scientific article published in Nature

X-ray digital imaging petrography of lunar mare soils: modal analyses of minerals and glasses

scientific article published on December 1996