Radar imager for Mars' subsurface experiment—RIMFAX

SE Hamran, DA Paige, HEF Amundsen, T Berger… - Space Science …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract The Radar Imager for Mars' Subsurface Experiment (RIMFAX) is a Ground
Penetrating Radar on the Mars 2020 mission's Perseverance rover, which is planned to land …

Water on Mars—a literature review

M Nazari-Sharabian, M Aghababaei, M Karakouzian… - Galaxies, 2020 - mdpi.com
To assess Mars' potential for both harboring life and providing useable resources for future
human exploration, it is of paramount importance to comprehend the water situation on the …

Lithifying and non-lithifying microbial ecosystems in the wetlands and salt flats of the Central Andes

FA Vignale, AI Lencina, TM Stepanenko, MN Soria… - Microbial ecology, 2021 - Springer
The wetlands and salt flats of the Central Andes region are unique extreme environments as
they are located in high-altitude saline deserts, largely influenced by volcanic activity …

[HTML][HTML] Radar sounding survey over Devon Ice Cap indicates the potential for a diverse hypersaline subglacial hydrological environment

A Rutishauser, DD Blankenship, DA Young… - The …, 2022 - tc.copernicus.org
Prior geophysical surveys provided evidence for a hypersaline subglacial lake complex
beneath the center of Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic; however, the full extent and …

Radar Observations of Liquid Water in the South Polar Region of Mars: Indications from Astrobiology Perspectives

J Zhou, C Ding, S Xiong, Y Su, J Li, M Chen, S Dai - Universe, 2024 - mdpi.com
In recent decades, extensive research has led to the understanding that Mars once hosted
substantial liquid-water reserves. While the current Martian landscape boasts significant …

Survivability of soil and permafrost microbial communities after irradiation with accelerated electrons under simulated Martian and open space conditions

V Cheptsov, E Vorobyova, A Belov, A Pavlov… - Geosciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
One of the prior current astrobiological tasks is revealing the limits of microbial resistance to
extraterrestrial conditions. Much attention is paid to ionizing radiation, since it can prevent …

Modern microbial mats and endoevaporite systems in Andean lakes: A general approach

ME Farías, LA Saona Acuña - Microbial ecosystems in Central Andes …, 2020 - Springer
Puna wetlands and salars are a unique extreme environment all over the world, since their
locations are in high-altitude saline deserts, largely influenced by volcanic activity …

Discovery of recurring slope lineae candidates in Mawrth Vallis, Mars

A Bhardwaj, L Sam, FJ Martín-Torres, MP Zorzano - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Several interpretations of recurring slope lineae (RSL) have related RSL to the potential
presence of transient liquid water on Mars. Such probable signs of liquid water have …

The Responses of the Black Fungus Cryomyces Antarcticus to High Doses of Accelerated Helium Ions Radiation within Martian Regolith Simulants and Their …

C Pacelli, A Cassaro, L Aureli, R Moeller, A Fujimori… - Life, 2020 - mdpi.com
One of the primary current astrobiological goals is to understand the limits of microbial
resistance to extraterrestrial conditions. Much attention is paid to ionizing radiation, since it …

Possible (closed system) pingo and ice-wedge/thermokarst complexes at the mid latitudes of Utopia Planitia, Mars

RJ Soare, SJ Conway, JP Williams, C Gallagher… - Icarus, 2020 - Elsevier
On Earth, hydrostatic or closed-system pingos (CSPs) are perennial ice-cored mounds
formed by the freeze-thaw cycling of water when or as thermokarst lakes lose their water by …