Two major types of environment provide habitats for the most xerophilic organisms known:
foods preserved by some form of dehydration or enhanced sugar levels, and hypersaline …

We describe the current state of the search for direct, surviving samples of early, inner Solar
System fluids—fluid inclusions in meteorites. Meteoritic aqueous fluid inclusions are not …

A variety of lines of evidence show that water was widely available during the earliest
geological history of the solar system. Water played a significant role in the cosmochemical …

Meteorite research is fundamental to our understanding of the origin and early history of the
Solar System. This book considers the mechanism and timing of core formation and basaltic …

The abundances of the highly siderophile elements (HSE), Re, Os, Ir, Ru, Pt and Pd, were
determined by isotope dilution mass spectrometry for bulk samples of 13 carbonaceous …

A suite of 47 carbonaceous, enstatite, and ordinary chondrites are examined for Re-Os
isotopic systematics. There are significant differences in the 187Re/188Os and …

The abundances of short-lived radionuclides in the early Solar System (ESS) are reviewed,
as well as the methodology used in determining them. These results are compared with the …

On the basis of observations using Cs‐corrected STEM, we identified three types of surface
modification probably formed by space weathering on the surfaces of Itokawa particles. They …

This chapter provides an overview of available noble gas data for solar system bodies apart
from the Earth, Mars, and asteroids. Besides the Sun, the Moon, and the giant planets, we …

Several extremely halophilic coccoid archaeal strains were isolated from pieces of dry rock
salt that were obtained three days after blasting operations in an Austrian salt mine. The …