Antarctica as a reservoir of planetary analogue environments

Definition and use of functional analogues in planetary exploration

(2021) F. Foucher et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Prokaryotic Diversity and Metabolically Active Communities in Brines from Two Perennially Ice-Covered Antarctic Lakes

(2021) Angelina Lo Giudice et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Endolithic microbial composition in Helliwell Hills, a newly investigated Mars‐like area in Antarctica

(2021) Claudia Coleine et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Fungal diversity and functionality are driven by soil texture in Taylor Valley, Antarctica

(2021) F. Canini et al.   Fungal Ecology

Growth Forms and Functional Guilds Distribution of Soil Fungi in Coastal Versus Inland Sites of Victoria Land, Antarctica

(2021) Fabiana Canini et al.   Biology-Basel

Speleology as an analogue to space exploration: The ESA CAVES training programme

(2021) Francesco Sauro et al.   ACTA ASTRONAUTICA

Intra‐ and inter‐cores fungal diversity suggests interconnection of different habitats in an Antarctic frozen lake (Boulder Clay, Northern Victoria Land)

(2020) Ciro Sannino et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Biotope and biocenosis of cryoconite hole ecosystems on Ecology Glacier in the maritime Antarctic

(2020) Jakub Buda et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Physiological Capabilities of Cryoconite Hole Microorganisms

(2020) Ewa A. Poniecka et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A hole in the nematosphere: tardigrades and rotifers dominate the cryoconite hole environment, whereas nematodes are missing

(2020) K. Zawierucha et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Multiple subglacial water bodies below the south pole of Mars unveiled by new MARSIS data

(2020) Sebastian Emanuel Lauro et al.   Nature Astronomy

Comparison of Microbial Communities in the Sediments and Water Columns of Frozen Cryoconite Holes in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2019) Pacifica Sommers et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

The Biodiversity and Geochemistry of Cryoconite Holes in Queen Maud Land, East Antarctica

(2019) Stefanie Lutz et al.   Microorganisms

Altitude and fungal diversity influence the structure of Antarctic cryptoendolithic Bacteria communities

(2019) Claudia Coleine et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Microbial Assemblages in Pressurized Antarctic Brine Pockets (Tarn Flat, Northern Victoria Land): A Hotspot of Biodiversity and Activity

(2019) Maria Papale et al.   Microorganisms

A thin ice layer segregates two distinct fungal communities in Antarctic brines from Tarn Flat (Northern Victoria Land)

(2018) Luigimaria Borruso et al.   Scientific Reports

Liquid water on Mars

(2018) Anja Diez   SCIENCE

Radar evidence of subglacial liquid water on Mars

(2018) R. Orosei et al.   SCIENCE

Alteration of rocks by endolithic organisms is one of the pathways for the beginning of soils on Earth

(2018) Nikita Mergelov et al.   Scientific Reports

Survival, DNA, and Ultrastructural Integrity of a Cryptoendolithic Antarctic Fungus in Mars and Lunar Rock Analogues Exposed Outside the International Space Station

(2018) Silvano Onofri et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Chemical characteristics of hydrologically distinct cryoconite holes in coastal Antarctica

(2018) Gautami Samui et al.   ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY

Evidence for stabilization of the ice-cemented cryosphere in earlier martian history: Implications for the current abundance of groundwater at depth on Mars

(2017) David K. Weiss et al.   ICARUS

An englacial hydrologic system of brine within a cold glacier: Blood Falls, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2017) JESSICA A. BADGELEY et al.   JOURNAL OF GLACIOLOGY

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

(2017) Caitlin M. Lapalme et al.   PERMAFROST AND PERIGLACIAL PROCESSES

AstRoMap European Astrobiology Roadmap

(2016) Gerda Horneck et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Responses of Antarctic Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems to Changing Ice Conditions

(2016) Maciej K. Obryk et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Microbial Community Dynamics in Two Polar Extremes: The Lakes of the McMurdo Dry Valleys and the West Antarctic Peninsula Marine Ecosystem

(2016) Jeff S. Bowman et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Metabolome-mediated biocryomorphic evolution promotes carbon fixation in Greenlandic cryoconite holes

(2016) Joseph M. Cook et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Helicopter-borne transient electromagnetics in high-latitude environments: An application in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2016) Neil Foley et al.   GEOPHYSICS

The diurnal libration and interior structure of Enceladus

(2016) Tim Van Hoolst et al.   ICARUS

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

(2016) Jacqueline Goordial et al.   ISME Journal

Reorientation of Sputnik Planitia implies a subsurface ocean on Pluto

(2016) F. Nimmo et al.   NATURE

Endolithic microbial diversity in sandstone and granite from the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2016) Stephen D. J. Archer et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

Pressurized brines in continental Antarctica as a possible analogue of Mars

(2016) Emanuele Forte et al.   Scientific Reports

Taxonomic and Functional Diversity of Soil and Hypolithic Microbial Communities in Miers Valley, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2016) Sean T. S. Wei et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Microbial Community Structure of Subglacial Lake Whillans, West Antarctica

(2016) Amanda M. Achberger et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Isolation of Radiation-Resistant Bacteria from Mars Analog Antarctic Dry Valleys by Preselection, and the Correlation between Radiation and Desiccation Resistance

(2015) Michaela Musilova et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Survival of Antarctic Cryptoendolithic Fungi in Simulated Martian Conditions On Board the International Space Station

(2015) Silvano Onofri et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

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

(2015) Frances Westall et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Autoendoliths: a distinct type of rock-hosted microbial life

(2015) J. Marlow et al.   Geobiology

Diversity and spatial distribution of autotrophic communities within and between ice-covered Antarctic lakes (McMurdo Dry Valleys)

(2015) Jenna M. Dolhi et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Geology and environments of subglacial Lake Vostok

(2015) German L. Leitchenkov et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Recent advances in understanding Antarctic subglacial lakes and hydrology

(2015) Martin J. Siegert et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Cryoconite

(2015) Joseph Cook et al.   PROGRESS IN PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Deep groundwater and potential subsurface habitats beneath an Antarctic dry valley

(2015) J. A. Mikucki et al.   Nature Communications

Microbial communities in dark oligotrophic volcanic ice cave ecosystems of Mt. Erebus, Antarctica

(2015) Bradley M. Tebo et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Atypical pit craters on Mars: New insights from THEMIS, CTX, and HiRISE observations

(2015) Glen E. Cushing et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-PLANETS

The lithic microbial ecosystems of Antarctica’s McMurdo Dry Valleys

(2014) Asunción De Los Ríos et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Experimental formation of pore fluids in McMurdo Dry Valleys soils

(2014) Joseph Levy et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Antarctic sea-ice microbial communities show distinct patterns of zonation in response to algal-derived substrates

(2014) ROM Cowie et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Influence of soil properties on archaeal diversity and distribution in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2014) Ingrid Richter et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Shape, topography, gravity anomalies and tidal deformation of Titan

(2014) Giuseppe Mitri et al.   ICARUS

Impact shocked rocks as protective habitats on an anoxic early Earth

(2014) Casey C. Bryce et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

Planetary habitability: lessons learned from terrestrial analogues

(2014) Louisa J. Preston et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

A microbial ecosystem beneath the West Antarctic ice sheet

(2014) Brent C. Christner et al.   NATURE

Mapping the lithic colonization at the boundaries of life in Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica

(2014) Laura Zucconi et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

WISSARD at Subglacial Lake Whillans, West Antarctica: scientific operations and initial observations

(2014) Slawek Tulaczyk et al.   ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY

The ecological dichotomy of ammonia-oxidizing archaea and bacteria in the hyper-arid soils of the Antarctic Dry Valleys

(2014) Catarina M. Magalhães et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Distribution of depth to ice-cemented soils in the high-elevation Quartermain Mountains, McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2013) Margarita M. Marinova et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Nutrient and population dynamics in a subglacial reservoir: a simulation case study of the Blood Falls ecosystem with implications for astrobiology

(2013) Thomson Mason Fisher et al.   International Journal of Astrobiology

Recurring slope lineae in equatorial regions of Mars

(2013) Alfred S. McEwen et al.   Nature Geoscience

The high elevation Dry Valleys in Antarctica as analog sites for subsurface ice on Mars

(2013) J.L. Heldmann et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

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

(2013) J. P. Grotzinger et al.   SCIENCE

Kepler-62: A Five-Planet System with Planets of 1.4 and 1.6 Earth Radii in the Habitable Zone

(2013) W. J. Borucki et al.   SCIENCE

Don Juan Pond, Antarctica: Near-surface CaCl2-brine feeding Earth's most saline lake and implications for Mars

(2013) James L. Dickson et al.   Scientific Reports

Effects of extreme cold and aridity on soils and habitability: McMurdo Dry Valleys as an analogue for the Mars Phoenix landing site

(2012) L.K. Tamppari et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

How big are the McMurdo Dry Valleys? Estimating ice-free area using Landsat image data

(2012) Joseph Levy   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

A fourth inventory of Antarctic subglacial lakes

(2012) Andrew Wright et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Survival of Rock-Colonizing Organisms After 1.5 Years in Outer Space

(2012) Silvano Onofri et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Hypolithic microbial communities: between a rock and a hard place

(2012) Yuki Chan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Hydrological characteristics of recurrent slope lineae on Mars: Evidence for liquid flow through regolith and comparisons with Antarctic terrestrial analogs

(2012) Joseph Levy   ICARUS

Microbial life at -13  C in the brine of an ice-sealed Antarctic lake

(2012) A. E. Murray et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ionizing Radiation and Life

(2011) Lewis R. Dartnell   ASTROBIOLOGY

Olivine-Respiring Bacteria Isolated from the Rock-Ice Interface in a Lava-Tube Cave, a Mars Analog Environment

(2011) Radu Popa et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Structure and diversity of bacterial, eukaryotic and archaeal communities in glacial cryoconite holes from the Arctic and the Antarctic

(2011) Karen A. Cameron et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY ECOLOGY

Water tracks and permafrost in Taylor Valley, Antarctica: Extensive and shallow groundwater connectivity in a cold desert ecosystem

(2011) J. S. Levy et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

The Inter-Valley Soil Comparative Survey: the ecology of Dry Valley edaphic microbial communities

(2011) Charles K Lee et al.   ISME Journal

A salt-water reservoir as the source of a compositionally stratified plume on Enceladus

(2011) F. Postberg et al.   NATURE

Searching for eukaryotic life preserved in Antarctic permafrost

(2011) L. Zucconi et al.   POLAR BIOLOGY

The microstructure and biogeochemistry of Arctic cryoconite granules

(2011) Harry Langford et al.   ANNALS OF GLACIOLOGY

Analog environments for a Europa lander mission

(2010) Ralph D. Lorenz et al.   ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH

Desiccation resistance of Antarctic Dry Valley bacteria isolated from contrasting locations

(2010) Lewis R. Dartnell et al.   ANTARCTIC SCIENCE

Low-Temperature Ionizing Radiation Resistance of Deinococcus radiodurans and Antarctic Dry Valley Bacteria

(2010) Lewis R. Dartnell et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

On the rocks: the microbiology of Antarctic Dry Valley soils

(2010) S. Craig Cary et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Diversity and ecology of psychrophilic microorganisms

(2010) Rosa Margesin et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Chemical Composition of Icy Satellite Surfaces

(2010) J. B. Dalton et al.   SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS

Validation of astrobiology technologies and instrument operations in terrestrial analogue environments

(2009) Richard Léveillé   COMPTES RENDUS PALEVOL

Snow in the McMurdo Dry Valleys, Antarctica

(2009) Andrew G. Fountain et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CLIMATOLOGY

Ground ice at the Phoenix Landing Site: Stability state and origin

(2009) Michael T. Mellon et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Lava tubes and basaltic caves as astrobiological targets on Earth and Mars: A review

(2009) Richard J. Léveillé et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Highly specialized microbial diversity in hyper-arid polar desert

(2009) S. B. Pointing et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hidden levels of phylodiversity in Antarctic green algae: further evidence for the existence of glacial refugia

(2009) A. De Wever et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

GLACIAL ECOSYSTEMS

(2008) Andy Hodson et al.   ECOLOGICAL MONOGRAPHS

Martian high latitude permafrost depth and surface cover thermal inertia distributions

(2008) Joshua L. Bandfield et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Evidence for extensive olivine-rich basalt bedrock outcrops in Ganges and Eos chasmas, Mars

(2008) C. S. Edwards et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH