Multidisciplinary approach of the hyperarid desert of Pampas de La Joya in southern Peru as a new Mars-like soil analog

JE Valdivia-Silva, R Navarro-González… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2011 - Elsevier
The distribution of living organisms, organic matter, and chemical properties in Mars-like
environments on Earth can be used as a model to guide the investigation of possible …

Thermally evolved gas analysis (TEGA) of hyperarid soils doped with microorganisms from the Atacama Desert in southern Peru: implications for the Phoenix mission

JE Valdivia-Silva, R Navarro-González… - Advances in Space …, 2009 - Elsevier
TEGA, one of several instruments on board of the Phoenix Lander, performed differential
scanning calorimetry and evolved gas analysis of soil samples and ice, collected from the …

Field method for rapid quantification of labile organic carbon in hyper-arid desert soils validated by two thermal methods

LE Fletcher, JE Valdivia-Silva… - International Journal of …, 2014 - cambridge.org
The objective of this work was to develop a field method for the determination of labile
organic carbon in hyper-arid desert soils. Industry standard methods rely on expensive …

[PDF][PDF] Field method for rapid quantification of labile organic carbon in hyper-arid desert soils validated by two thermal methods

CP McKay - academia.edu
The objective of this work was to develop a field method for the determination of labile
organic carbon in hyper-arid desert soils. Industry standard methods rely on expensive …

[PDF][PDF] Oxidant activity in soils from the Pampas de La Joya, Atacama Desert in southern Peru, under conditions of the Labeled Release experiment

JE Valdivia-Silva - European Planetary Science Congress, 2009 - meetings.copernicus.org
Mars-like environments on Earth provide an important tool to prepare for the search for life
on future missions to Mars, and/or a better understanding of the geological, geochemical …