Bacterial Growth in Brines Formed by the Deliquescence of Salts Relevant to Cold Arid Worlds

Life in a Droplet: Microbial Ecology in Microscopic Surface Wetness

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Extremely halophilic archaeal communities are resilient to short‐term entombment in halite

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Methanogenic Archaea Can Produce Methane in Deliquescence-Driven Mars Analog Environments

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Mars Extant Life: What's Next? Conference Report

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Annual and daily ideal periods for deliquescence at the landing site of InSight based on GCM model calculations

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Distribution and habitability of (meta)stable brines on present-day Mars

(2020) Edgard G. Rivera-Valentín et al.   Nature Astronomy

Stability of the Liquid Water Phase on Mars: A Thermodynamic Analysis Considering Martian Atmospheric Conditions and Perchlorate Brine Solutions

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The Venusian Lower Atmosphere Haze as a Depot for Desiccated Microbial Life: A Proposed Life Cycle for Persistence of the Venusian Aerial Biosphere

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Bacterial growth in saturated and eutectic solutions of magnesium sulphate and potassium chlorate with relevance to Mars and the ocean worlds

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Cultivation and characterization of the bacterial assemblage of epsomic Basque Lake, BC

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Seawater salt-trapped Pseudomonas aeruginosa survives for years and gets primed for salinity tolerance

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Circular troughs in tessera terrain on Venus: Morphometry, structural analysis and possible formation model

(2019) G. Cofrade et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Mars Science Laboratory Observations of Chloride Salts in Gale Crater, Mars

(2019) N. H. Thomas et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

An interval of high salinity in ancient Gale crater lake on Mars

(2019) W. Rapin et al.   Nature Geoscience

Microbial unknowns at the saline limits for life

(2019) John E. Hallsworth   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Venus' Spectral Signatures and the Potential for Life in the Clouds

(2018) Sanjay S. Limaye et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Enhanced Microbial Survivability in Subzero Brines

(2018) Jacob Heinz et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Organic matter preserved in 3-billion-year-old mudstones at Gale crater, Mars

(2018) Jennifer L. Eigenbrode et al.   SCIENCE

Building a Geochemical View of Microbial Salt Tolerance: Halophilic Adaptation of Marinococcus in a Natural Magnesium Sulfate Brine

(2018) Mark G. Fox-Powell et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Radar evidence of subglacial liquid water on Mars

(2018) R. Orosei et al.   SCIENCE

Freezing of perchlorate and chloride brines under Mars-relevant conditions

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Venus Surface Composition Constrained by Observation and Experiment

(2017) Martha Gilmore et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Long-range transport of airborne microbes over the global tropical and subtropical ocean

(2017) Eva Mayol et al.   Nature Communications

Detection of Perchlorate and the Soluble Chemistry of Martian Soil at the Phoenix Lander Site

(2017) M. H. Hecht et al.   SCIENCE

Formation and Persistence of Brine on Mars: Experimental Simulations throughout the Diurnal Cycle at the Phoenix Landing Site

(2016) E. Fischer et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Was Venus the first habitable world of our solar system?

(2016) M. J. Way et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Bacterial growth tolerance to concentrations of chlorate and perchlorate salts relevant to Mars

(2016) Amer F. Al Soudi et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

Measurements of Oxychlorine species on Mars

(2016) B. Sutter et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

Lessons learned from thirty years of geomicrobiological studies of Río Tinto

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Determination of Intracellular Vitrification Temperatures for Unicellular Micro Organisms under Conditions Relevant for Cryopreservation

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Provision of water by halite deliquescence for Nostoc commune biofilms under Mars relevant surface conditions

(2015) Jochen Jänchen et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

Evidence for the distribution of perchlorates on Mars

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Halophilic microbial communities in deteriorated buildings

(2015) Justyna Adamiak et al.   WORLD JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY

A New Analysis of Mars “Special Regions”: Findings of the Second MEPAG Special Regions Science Analysis Group (SR-SAG2)

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Experimental evidence for the formation of liquid saline water on Mars

(2014) Erik Fischer et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Deliquescence and efflorescence of calcium perchlorate: An investigation of stable aqueous solutions relevant to Mars

(2014) D.L. Nuding et al.   ICARUS

The formation of supercooled brines, viscous liquids, and low-temperature perchlorate glasses in aqueous solutions relevant to Mars

(2014) J.D. Toner et al.   ICARUS

Molecular and phenetic characterization of the bacterial assemblage of Hot Lake, WA, an environment with high concentrations of magnesium sulphate, and its relevance to Mars

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On the edge of habitability and the extremes of liquidity

(2013) Hendrik Hansen-Goos et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

A Low Temperature Limit for Life on Earth

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Salt deliquescence drives photosynthesis in the hyperarid Atacama Desert

(2013) Alfonso F. Davila et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Potassium alum and aluminum sulfate micro-inclusions in polar ice from Dome Fuji, East Antarctica

(2013) Hiroshi Ohno et al.   Polar Science

Intercontinental Dispersal of Bacteria and Archaea by Transpacific Winds

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Diverse Microhabitats Experienced by Halomonas variabilis on Salt-Secreting Leaves

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Bacterial Growth at the High Concentrations of Magnesium Sulfate Found in Martian Soils

(2012) J.D. Crisler et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Spherical particles of halophilic archaea correlate with exposure to low water activity - implications for microbial survival in fluid inclusions of ancient halite

(2012) S. Fendrihan et al.   Geobiology

Chlorate salts and solutions on Mars

(2012) Jennifer Hanley et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Stability field and phase transition pathways of hydrous ferric sulfates in the temperature range 50°C to 5°C: Implication for martian ferric sulfates

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Microbial colonization and controls in dryland systems

(2012) Stephen B. Pointing et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Hydrous minerals on Mars as seen by the CRISM and OMEGA imaging spectrometers: Updated global view

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Geographical Location Determines the Population Structure in Phyllosphere Microbial Communities of a Salt-Excreting Desert Tree

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Reversible uptake of water on NaCl nanoparticles at relative humidity below deliquescence point observed by noncontact environmental atomic force microscopy

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Hygroscopic Salts and the Potential for Life on Mars

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Theory of ice premelting in porous media

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Experimental investigation of the stability and evaporation of sulfate and chloride brines on Mars

(2009) Travis Altheide et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

Stability of liquid saline water on present day Mars

(2009) M.-P. Zorzano et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Raman spectroscopy as a potential method for the detection of extremely halophilic archaea embedded in halite in terrestrial and possibly extraterrestrial samples

(2009) Sergiu Fendrihan et al.   JOURNAL OF RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY

On the possibility of microbiota transfer from Venus to Earth

(2008) N. C. Wickramasinghe et al.   ASTROPHYSICS AND SPACE SCIENCE

Drop-Size Soda Lakes: Transient Microbial Habitats on a Salt-Secreting Desert Tree

(2008) N. Qvit-Raz et al.   GENETICS

Low temperature aqueous ferric sulfate solutions on the surface of Mars

(2008) Vincent F. Chevrier et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS