Continental evaporites and the search for evidence of life on Mars

Archaeal diversity along a subterranean salt core from the Salar Grande (Chile)

(2011) Audrey Gramain et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Physicochemical Conditions and Microbial Diversity Associated with the Evaporite Deposits in the Laguna de la Piedra (Salar de Atacama, Chile)

(2011) Nunzia Stivaletta et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

The microbe-mineral environment and gypsum neogenesis in a weathered polar evaporite

(2010) C. S. COCKELL et al.   Geobiology

Ribosomal RNA gene fragments from fossilized cyanobacteria identified in primary gypsum from the late Miocene, Italy

(2010) G. PANIERI et al.   Geobiology

Biomarkers of Endolithic Communities within Gypsum Crusts (Southern Tunisia)

(2010) Nunzia Stivaletta et al.   GEOMICROBIOLOGY JOURNAL

Soluble sulfate in the martian soil at the Phoenix landing site

(2010) Samuel P. Kounaves et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Late Noachian to Hesperian climate change on Mars: Evidence of episodic warming from transient crater lakes near Ares Vallis

(2010) Nick Warner et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Geologic context of proposed chloride-bearing materials on Mars

(2010) Mikki M. Osterloo et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

The potential of Raman spectroscopy for the analysis of diagenetically transformed carotenoids

(2010) C. P. Marshall et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY A-MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Detection of Hydrated Silicates in Crustal Outcrops in the Northern Plains of Mars

(2010) J. Carter et al.   SCIENCE

The Origin of Biological Homochirality

(2010) D. G. Blackmond   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

Microbial Species Richness and Metabolic Activities in Hypersaline Microbial Mats: Insight into Biosignature Formation Through Lithification

(2009) Laura K. Baumgartner et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Microscopic Identification of Prokaryotes in Modern and Ancient Halite, Saline Valley and Death Valley, California

(2009) Brian A. Schubert et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

A rare natural gypsum ooide (Gypsolites) in an evaporitic playa lake of late miocene (?) to pliocene age in central Anatlia, Turkey

(2009) Erdoĝan Tekin et al.   CARBONATES AND EVAPORITES

Evaporites through time: Tectonic, climatic and eustatic controls in marine and nonmarine deposits

(2009) John K. Warren   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

HalophilicArchaeacultured from ancient halite, Death Valley, California

(2009) Brian A. Schubert et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Haloarchaeal diversity in 23, 121 and 419 MYA salts

(2009) J. S. PARK et al.   Geobiology

A hypersaline microbial mat from the Pacific Atoll Kiritimati: insights into composition and carbon fixation using biomarker analyses and a13C-labeling approach

(2009) S. I. BÜHRING et al.   Geobiology

Testing evidence of recent hydration state change in sulfates on Mars

(2009) L. H. Roach et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

A synthesis of Martian aqueous mineralogy after 1 Mars year of observations from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

(2009) Scott L. Murchie et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

“Hairy Blobs:” Microbial Suspects Preserved in Modern and Ancient Extremely Acid Lake Evaporites

(2008) Kathleen C. Benison et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Fluorescence Microscopy as a Tool for In Situ Life Detection

(2008) J.L. Nadeau et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Drilling Systems for Extraterrestrial Subsurface Exploration

(2008) K. Zacny et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Characterization and spatial distribution of methanogens and methanogenic biosignatures in hypersaline microbial mats of Baja California

(2008) V. J. ORPHAN et al.   Geobiology

Aerobic microbial dolomite at the nanometer scale: Implications for the geologic record

(2008) Mónica Sánchez-Román et al.   GEOLOGY

Endolithic microorganisms from spring mound evaporite deposits (southern Tunisia)

(2008) N. Stivaletta et al.   JOURNAL OF ARID ENVIRONMENTS

Facilitation of endolithic microbial survival in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert by mineral deliquescence

(2008) Alfonso F. Davila et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Astrobiological significance of the sabkha life and environments of southern Tunisia

(2008) Nunzia Stivaletta et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Beta-carotene—A possible biomarker in the Martian evaporitic environment: Raman micro-spectroscopic study

(2008) Petr Vítek et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE

Chloride-Bearing Materials in the Southern Highlands of Mars

(2008) M. M. Osterloo et al.   SCIENCE

Textural and mineralogical biosignatures in an unusual microbialite from Death Valley, California

(2007) Susanne Douglas et al.   ICARUS