Prospecting the first Chilean Martian simulants from the Atacama Desert for ISRU and potential applications

J San Martin, G Leone, K Riveros-Jensen, MA Alam… - Icarus, 2025 - Elsevier
Martian simulants are an essential part of in situ resource utilization (ISRU) technology
development and testing, and aid in providing new astrobiology insights regarding Mars's …

Oligotrophic Growth of Nitrate-Dependent Fe2+-Oxidising Microorganisms Under Simulated Early Martian Conditions

A Price, MC Macey, VK Pearson… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Nitrate-dependent Fe2+ oxidation (NDFO) is a microbially mediated process observed in
many anaerobic, low-nutrient (oligotrophic) neutral–alkaline environments on Earth, which …