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List of works by Christopher McKay

"Standoff Biofinder" for Fast, Noncontact, Nondestructive, Large-Area Detection of Biological Materials for Planetary Exploration

scientific article

<i>In Situ</i> Real-Time Monitoring for Aseptic Drilling: Lessons Learned from the Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies Contamination Control Strategy and Implementation and Application to the Icebreaker Mars Life Detection Mission

scientific article published in 2023

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

scientific article

A large sedimentary basin in the Terra Sirenum region of the southern highlands of Mars

Abiotic input of fixed nitrogen by bolide impacts to Gale crater during the Hesperian. Insights from the Mars Science Laboratory

Abundances and implications of volatile-bearing species from evolved gas analysis of the Rocknest aeolian deposit, Gale Crater, Mars

An instrument design for non-contact detection of biomolecules and minerals on Mars using fluorescence

scientific article

An origin of life on Mars

scientific article (publication date: April 2010)

Astrobiology through the ages of Mars: the study of terrestrial analogues to understand the habitability of Mars.

scientific article published on October 2010

Background levels of methane in Mars’ atmosphere show strong seasonal variations

scientific article published in Science

Biomarkers in the Atacama Desert along the moisture gradient and the depth in the hyperarid zone: Phosphatase activity as trace of microbial activity

scientific article published in 2022

Chance and necessity in biochemistry: implications for the search for extraterrestrial biomarkers in Earth-like environments

scientific article

Characterization of organics, microorganisms, desert soils, and Mars-like soils by thermal volatilization coupled to mass spectrometry and their implications for the search for organics on Mars by Phoenix and future space missions

scientific article published on October 2009

Climatology and implications for perennial lake ice occurrence at Bunger Hills Oasis, East Antarctica

scholarly article published in 1996

Cold glacial oceans would have inhibited phyllosilicate sedimentation on early Mars

scholarly article by Alberto G. Fairén et al published 28 August 2011 in Nature Geoscience

Comparative activity and functional ecology of permafrost soils and lithic niches in a hyper-arid polar desert

scientific article published on 30 April 2016

Comparing flow-through and static ice cave models for Shoshone Ice Cave

scholarly article

Correction to “Reanalysis of the Viking results suggests perchlorate and organics at midlatitudes on Mars”

scholarly article

Cryostratigraphy and the Sublimation Unconformity in Permafrost from an Ultraxerous Environment, University Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys of Antarctica

scientific article published on 29 May 2017

Cyanobacteria and chloroflexi-dominated hypolithic colonization of quartz at the hyper-arid core of the Atacama Desert, Chile ⬇️

scientific article published on November 11, 2010

David Gilichinsky ⬇️

scientific article published on March 6, 2012

Deoxyribonucleic Acid Extraction from Mars Analog Soils and Their Characterization with Solid-State Nanopores

scientific article published in 2022

Discovery of natural perchlorate in the Antarctic Dry Valleys and its global implications

scientific article

Do ice caves exist on Mars?

scholarly article by K.E. Williams et al published October 2010 in Icarus

Effects of Gamma and Electron Radiations on the Structural Integrity of Organic Molecules and Macromolecular Biomarkers Measured by Microarray Immunoassays and Their Astrobiological Implications

scientific article published on 02 August 2018

Effects of nitric oxide and nitrogen dioxide on bacterial growth ⬇️

scientific article published on July 1, 1983

Evidence for Amazonian acidic liquid water on Mars—A reinterpretation of MER mission results

article

Evidence for indigenous nitrogen in sedimentary and aeolian deposits from the Curiosity rover investigations at Gale crater, Mars

scientific article

Evidence for perchlorates and the origin of chlorinated hydrocarbons detected by SAM at the Rocknest aeolian deposit in Gale Crater

scholarly article

Global Diversity of Desert Hypolithic Cyanobacteria

scientific article published on 16 May 2017

Growth of methanogens on a Mars soil simulant

scientific article published on December 2004

How to search for life on Mars.

scientific article published on June 2014

Hydrogeologic Evolution of Gale Crater and Its Relevance to the Exobiological Exploration of Mars

scholarly article

Hygroscopic salts and the potential for life on Mars.

scientific article published on July 2010

Hypolithic Cyanobacteria Supported Mainly by Fog in the Coastal Range of the Atacama Desert ⬇️

scientific article published on December 29, 2010

In SituMicrobial Detection in Mojave Desert Soil Using Native Fluorescence ⬇️

scientific article published on February 21, 2012

Introduction to special section on the Phoenix Mission: Landing Site Characterization Experiments, Mission Overviews, and Expected Science

scholarly article

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

scientific article

Isotopes of nitrogen on Mars: Atmospheric measurements by Curiosity's mass spectrometer

scientific article published on 9 December 2013

Key science questions from the second conference on early Mars: geologic, hydrologic, and climatic evolution and the implications for life

scientific article published on December 2005

LIFE: Life Investigation For Enceladus A Sample Return Mission Concept in Search for Evidence of Life

scientific article

Long-term biological consequences of nuclear war

scientific article published in Science

Loving Mars: A Review of To Mars With Love, by Patricia Ann Straat

article

Magnetotactic bacteria on Earth and on Mars

scientific article published on January 2003

Mars methane detection and variability at Gale crater

scientific article (publication date: 16 December 2014)

Mars-like soils in the Atacama Desert, Chile, and the dry limit of microbial life

scientific article (publication date: 7 November 2003)

Multidisciplinary approach of the hyperarid desert of Pampas de La Joya in southern Peru as a new Mars-like soil analog

scholarly article

Near-Infrared (NIR) Raman Spectroscopy of Precambrian Carbonate Stromatolites with Post-Depositional Organic Inclusions ⬇️

scientific article published on July 13, 2012

Near-term lander experiments for growing plants on Mars: requirements for information on chemical and physical properties of Mars regolith

scientific article published on January 2002

Nearing the cold-arid limits of microbial life in permafrost of an upper dry valley, Antarctica

scientific article published on 19 January 2016

Noachian and more recent phyllosilicates in impact craters on Mars.

scientific article

On the in situ aqueous alteration of soils on Mars

scholarly article

On the oxidation ability of the NASA Mars-1 soil simulant during the thermal volatilization step: Implications for the search of organics on Mars

scholarly article

On the possibility of liquid water on present-day Mars

article

Perchlorate on Mars: a chemical hazard and a resource for humans

article

Possible physical and thermodynamical evidence for liquid water at the Phoenix landing site

scholarly article

Preliminary report on radiocarbon dating of cryptoendolithic microorganisms.

scientific article

Quantitative 3D Model of Light Transmittance Through Translucent Rocks Applied to the Hypolithic Microbial Community ⬇️

scientific article published on May 11, 2013

Reanalysis of the Viking results suggests perchlorate and organics at midlatitudes on Mars

scholarly article

Remote Raman Spectroscopy for Planetary Exploration: A Review ⬇️

scientific article published on February 1, 2012

Reply to comment by Biemann and Bada on “Reanalysis of the Viking results suggests perchlorate and organics at midlatitudes on Mars”

scholarly article

Science from a Mars Airplane: The Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Survey (ARES) of Mars

article

Seasonal Variations in Atmospheric Composition as Measured in Gale Crater, Mars ⬇️

journal article from 'Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets' published in 2019

Stability against freezing of aqueous solutions on early Mars

scientific article

Subsurface scientific exploration of extraterrestrial environments (MINAR 5): analogue science, technology and education in the Boulby Mine, UK

scientific article

Survival of endospores of Bacillus subtilis on spacecraft surfaces under simulated martian environments: implications for the forward contamination of Mars

scientific article

Temperature and Moisture Conditions for Life in the Extreme Arid Region of the Atacama Desert: Four Years of Observations Including the El Niño of 1997–1998 ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2003

Testing the H2O2-H2O hypothesis for life on Mars with the TEGA instrument on the Phoenix lander.

scientific article published on April 2008

The ChemCam Instrument Suite on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Rover: Body Unit and Combined System Tests

article

The ChemCam Instrument Suite on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Rover: Science Objectives and Mast Unit Description

journal article

The Icebreaker Life Mission to Mars: a search for biomolecular evidence for life

scientific article

The Oxygen Release Instrument: Space Mission Reactive Oxygen Species Measurements for Habitability Characterization, Biosignature Preservation Potential Assessment, and Evaluation of Human Health Hazards

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

The Sample Analysis at Mars Investigation and Instrument Suite

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The early environment and its evolution on Mars: Implication for life

article

The effects of snow and salt on ice table stability in University Valley, Antarctica

scientific article published on 13 October 2017

The implantation of life on Mars: Feasibility and motivation

scientific article (publication date: 1992)

The limitations on organic detection in Mars-like soils by thermal volatilization-gas chromatography-MS and their implications for the Viking results

scientific article

The nitrate/(per)chlorate relationship on Mars

scholarly article

The photochemical stability of carbonates on Mars

scientific article

The sample handling system for the Mars Icebreaker Life mission: from dirt to data

scientific article

Titan, Mars and Earth : Entropy production by latitudinal heat transport

article

Tracking the weathering of basalts on Mars using lithium isotope fractionation models

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

Transitory microbial habitat in the hyperarid Atacama Desert.

scientific article published on 26 February 2018

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

scientific article

What can in situ ion chromatography offer for Mars exploration?

scientific article published on 25 June 2014

Why O2 is required by complex life on habitable planets and the concept of planetary "oxygenation time"

scientific article

[Long-term effects of nuclear war]

scientific article published on 01 October 1984

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