List of works by Alberto G. Fairén

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

scientific article

A Test in a High Altitude Lake of a Multi-Parametric Rapid Methodology for Assessing Life in Liquid Environments on Planetary Bodies: A Potential New Freshwater Polychaete Tubeworm Community

scientific article published on 18 June 2019

A cold hydrological system in Gale crater, Mars

scientific article published in April 2014

A global Mars dust composition refined by the Alpha-Particle X-ray Spectrometer in Gale Crater

article

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

A new deal for the human exploration of Mars

scientific article published on 9 June 2023

A roadmap for planetary caves science and exploration

scholarly article

A two-tiered approach to assessing the habitability of exoplanets

scientific article

Active ground patterns near Mars' equator in the Glen Torridon region of Gale Crater

scientific article published in 2022

Aeolian transport of viable microbial life across the Atacama Desert, Chile: Implications for Mars

scientific article published on 22 August 2019

Alteration history of Séítah formation rocks inferred by PIXL x-ray fluorescence, x-ray diffraction, and multispectral imaging on Mars

journal article

An inventory of potentially habitable environments on Mars: Geological and biological perspectives

Ancient aqueous environments at Endeavour crater, Mars

scientific article

Aqueous alteration processes in Jezero crater, Mars−implications for organic geochemistry

journal article

Assessing the Possibility of Biological Complexity on Other Worlds, with an Estimate of the Occurrence of Complex Life in the Milky Way Galaxy

article

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

scientific article published on October 2010

Atlantis basin, Sirenum Terrae, Mars: geological setting and astrobiological implications

scientific article published in July 2004

Author Correction: Aeolian transport of viable microbial life across the Atacama Desert, Chile: Implications for Mars

scientific article published on 15 January 2020

Author Correction: Unprecedented rains decimate surface microbial communities in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert

scientific article published on 21 May 2019

Biomarker Profiling of Microbial Mats in the Geothermal Band of Cerro Caliente, Deception Island (Antarctica): Life at the Edge of Heat and cold.

scientific article published on 24 July 2019

Can Halophilic and Psychrophilic Microorganisms Modify the Freezing/Melting Curve of Cold Salty Solutions? Implications for Mars Habitability

scientific article published on 20 August 2020

Centimeter to decimeter hollow concretions and voids in Gale Crater sediments, Mars

scholarly article

Characterization of the acidic cold seep emplaced jarositic Golden Deposit, NWT, Canada, as an analogue for jarosite deposition on Mars

scientific article

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

Constraining the preservation of organic compounds in Mars analog nontronites after exposure to acid and alkaline fluids

scientific article published on 15 September 2020

Crystalline water in gypsum is unavailable for cyanobacteria in laboratory experiments and in natural desert endolithic habitats

scientific article published on 22 October 2020

Deposits from giant floods in Gale crater and their implications for the climate of early Mars

scientific article published on 05 November 2020

Diagenetic origin of nodules in the Sheepbed member, Yellowknife Bay formation, Gale crater, Mars

scholarly article

Did the martian outflow channels mostly form during the Amazonian Period?

Drastic environmental change and its effects on a planetary biosphere

scientific article

Episodic flood inundations of the northern plains of Mars

article

Erratum to “New insights into the Late Amazonian zonal shrinkage of the Martian south polar plateau” [Icarus 248 (2015) 407–411]

scholarly article published in Icarus

Erratum: Martian outflow channels: How did their source aquifers form, and why did they drain so rapidly?

scientific article published on 20 October 2015

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

article

Evidence for Hesperian glaciation along the Martian dichotomy boundary

article

Evidence for Hesperian impact-induced hydrothermalism on Mars

article published in 2010

Evidence for Middle Amazonian catastrophic flooding and glaciation on Mars

scholarly article

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

scientific article

Extraformational sediment recycling on Mars

scientific article published in December 2020

Extreme environments as Mars terrestrial analogs: The Rio Tinto case

scholarly article by Ricardo Amils et al published February 2007 in Planetary and Space Science

Finding of unusual soil on Mars could stem from tools used

journal article; published in Nature on 2008-12-17

Fluidized-sediment pipes in Gale crater, Mars, and possible Earth analogs

scholarly article

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

scholarly article

Formation and disruption of aquifers in southwestern Chryse Planitia, Mars

Fundamental Science and Engineering Questions in Planetary Cave Exploration

scientific article published in 2022

GRS evidence and the possibility of paleooceans on Mars

article

Geological and hydrological histories of the Argyre province, Mars

scholarly article

Geological, multispectral, and meteorological imaging results from the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover in Jezero crater

Grid mapping survey for water- and volcanic-related features along Arabia Terra in the context of the ExoMars landing site

scientific article published on 8 October 2020

Ground penetrating radar observations of subsurface structures in the floor of Jezero crater, Mars

scientific article published on 26 August 2022

Groundwater flow induced collapse and flooding in Noctis Labyrinthus, Mars

Groundwater influence on the aeolian sequence stratigraphy of the Mechertate–Chrita–Sidi El Hani system, Tunisian Sahel: Analogies to the wet–dry aeolian sequence stratigraphy at Meridiani Planum, Terby crater, and Gale crater, Mars

article published in 2014

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

scientific article published in July 2017

Hygroscopic salts and the potential for life on Mars.

scientific article published on July 2010

Infiltration of Martian outflow channel floodwaters into lowland cavernous systems

scholarly article

Inhabited subsurface wet smectites in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert as an analog for the search for life on Mars

scientific article published on 05 November 2020

Inhibition of carbonate synthesis in acidic oceans on early Mars

scientific article

Interglacial clathrate destabilization on Mars: Possible contributing source of its atmospheric methane

scholarly article by Olga Prieto-Ballesteros et al published 2006 in Geology

Is Searching for Martian Life a Priority for the Mars Community?

scientific article published on 23 January 2018

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

scientific article

Light and variable 37 Cl/ 35 Cl ratios in rocks from Gale Crater, Mars: Possible signature of perchlorate

scholarly article by K.A. Farley et al published March 2016 in Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Locally targeted ecosynthesis: a proactive in situ search for extant life on other worlds

scientific article published on 12 July 2013

Long-lasting habitable periods in Gale crater constrained by glauconitic clays

scientific article

Long-lived volcanism within Argyre basin, Mars

scientific article

Low Hesperian PCO2 constrained from in situ mineralogical analysis at Gale Crater, Mars

scientific article

Martian outflow channels: How did their source aquifers form, and why did they drain so rapidly?

scientific article

Microbiology and Nitrogen Cycle in the Benthic Sediments of a Glacial Oligotrophic Deep Andean Lake as Analog of Ancient Martian Lake-Beds

article

Mineral paragenesis on Mars: The roles of reactive surface area and diffusion.

scientific article

Mineralogy of an ancient lacustrine mudstone succession from the Murray formation, Gale crater, Mars ⬇️

scholarly article

Mineralogy, chemistry and biological contingents of an early-middle Miocene Antarctic paleosol and its relevance as a Martian analogue

scholarly article by William Mahaney et al published December 2014 in Planetary and Space Science

Models of formation and activity of spring mounds in the mechertate-chrita-sidi el hani system, eastern Tunisia: implications for the habitability of Mars

scientific article

New evidence for a magmatic influence on the origin of Valles Marineris, Mars

article

New insights into the Late Amazonian zonal shrinkage of the martian south polar plateau

article published in 2015

New priorities in the robotic exploration of Mars: the case for in situ search for extant life.

scientific article published on September 2010

Noachian and more recent phyllosilicates in impact craters on Mars.

scientific article

Orbital Context and In Situ Observations of Nili Fossae Olivine-Carbonate

preprint posted December 01, 2021

Orbital Context and In Situ Observations of Nili Fossae Olivine-Carbonate

preprint posted 12 November 2021

Organic molecules in the Sheepbed Mudstone, Gale Crater, Mars

scientific article

Origin and composition of three heterolithic boulder- and cobble-bearing deposits overlying the Murray and Stimson formations, Gale Crater, Mars ⬇️

scientific article published on 06 June 2020

Origin and significance of decameter-scale polygons in the lower Peace Vallis fan of Gale crater, Mars

scientific article published in October 2016

Possible ancient giant basin and related water enrichment in the Arabia Terra province, Mars

article

Potassium-rich sandstones within the Gale impact crater, Mars: The APXS perspective

article published in 2016

Prime candidate sites for astrobiological exploration through the hydrogeological history of Mars

Quantifying Fenton reaction pathways driven by self-generated H2O2 on pyrite surfaces.

scientific article published on 6 March 2017

Recent geological and hydrological activity on Mars: The Tharsis/Elysium corridor

article

Redox stratification of an ancient lake in Gale crater, Mars.

scientific article

Rock Coatings as Evidence for Late Surface Alteration on the Floor of Jezero Crater, Mars

scholarly article

Scenarios for the evolution of life on Mars

scholarly article

Science and technology requirements to explore caves in our Solar System

scholarly article

Searching for Life on Mars Before It Is Too Late

scientific article published on 8 September 2017

Seas under ice: Stability of liquid-water oceans within icy worlds

scientific article published in 2005

Stability against freezing of aqueous solutions on early Mars

scientific article

Surface clay formation during short-term warmer and wetter conditions on a largely cold ancient Mars

article

The Argyre Region as a Prime Target for in situ Astrobiological Exploration of Mars.

scientific article

The Atacama Desert in Northern Chile as an Analog Model of Mars

scientific article published on 12 January 2022

The Biological Oxidant and Life Detection (BOLD) mission: A proposal for a mission to Mars

The Complex Molecules Detector (CMOLD): A Fluidic-Based Instrument Suite to Search for (Bio)chemical Complexity on Mars and Icy Moons

scientific article published on 26 August 2020

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

scientific article

The Modern Near-Surface Martian Climate: A Review of In-situ Meteorological Data from Viking to Curiosity

article by Germán Martínez et al published 5 April 2017 in Space Science Reviews

The case for life on Mars

The overprotection of Mars

The search for life beyond Earth through fuzzy expert systems

Tier-Scalable Reconnaissance Missions For The Autonomous Exploration Of Planetary Bodies

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

scientific article published on 28 April 2015

Tsunami waves extensively resurfaced the shorelines of an early Martian ocean

scientific article

Unprecedented rains decimate surface microbial communities in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Venus, Mars, and the Ices on Mercury and the Moon: Astrobiological Implications and Proposed Mission Designs

scientific article

Volatile and organic compositions of sedimentary rocks in Yellowknife Bay, Gale crater, Mars

scientific article

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

scientific article

What should we call Pluto?

scientific article

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