Life in Multi-Extreme Environments: Brines, Osmotic and Hydrostatic Pressure─ A Physicochemical View

JM Knop, S Mukherjee, MW Jaworek… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Elucidating the details of the formation, stability, interactions, and reactivity of biomolecular
systems under extreme environmental conditions, including high salt concentrations in …

[HTML][HTML] Radar Observation of the Lava Tubes on the Moon and Mars

X Qiu, C Ding - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
The detection of lava tubes beneath the surfaces of the Moon and Mars has been a popular
research topic and challenge in planetary radar observation. In recent years, the Moon …

Dielectric properties of water in charged nanopores

TR Underwood, IC Bourg - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2022 - ACS Publications
In this study, we examine the spectral dielectric properties of liquid water in charged
nanopores over a wide range of frequencies (0.3 GHz to 30 THz) and pore widths (0.3 to 5 …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding high-salt and cold adaptation of a polyextremophilic enzyme

R Karan, S Mathew, R Muhammad, DB Bautista… - Microorganisms, 2020 - mdpi.com
The haloarchaeon Halorubrum lacusprofundi is among the few polyextremophilic organisms
capable of surviving in one of the most extreme aquatic environments on Earth, the Deep …

[PDF][PDF] Evolution of life in the oceans of Mars? Episodes of global warming, flooding, rivers, lakes, and chaotic orbital obliquity

RG Joseph, C Gibson, K Wolowski… - Journal of …, 2022 - researchgate.net
Mars has been subject to repeated waxing and waning episodes of extreme chaotic
obliquity (axial tilting) for at least four billion years. Obliquity is currently at 25.19 degrees …

The basal detectability of an ice‐covered Mars by MARSIS

C Grima, J Mouginot, W Kofman… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The detection of anomalously strong relative basal reflectivity beneath the Martian South
Polar Layered Deposits (SPLD) from the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and …

Evidence of Martian microalgae at the Pahrump Hills field site: A morphometric analysis

G Bianciardi, T Nicolò, L Bianciardi - … OF ASTROBIOLOGY AND …, 2021 - usiena-air.unisi.it
We describe an objective morphometric analysis of images of specimens resembling
fossilized microalgae photographed by the rover Curiosity in Aeolis Palus, Gale Crater …

Numerical simulations of radar echoes rule out basal CO2 ice deposits at Ultimi Scopuli, Mars

R Orosei, G Caprarelli, S Lauro, E Pettinelli, M Cartacci… - Icarus, 2022 - Elsevier
The principal objective of the radar sounder MARSIS experiment is to look for ice and water
in the Martian subsurface. One particular focus of investigations, since 2005, has been the …

[HTML][HTML] Mars: life, subglacial oceans, abiogenic photosynthesis, seasonal increases and replenishment of atmospheric oxygen

RG Joseph, NS Duxbury, GJ Kidron, CH Gibson… - Open …, 2020 - degruyter.com
The discovery and subsequent investigations of atmospheric oxygen on Mars are reviewed.
Free oxygen is a biomarker produced by photosynthesizing organisms. Oxygen is reactive …

An improved method of surface clutter simulation based on orbiting radar in Tianwen-1 Mars exploration

T Hong, Y Su, S Dai, Z Zhang, W Du, C Liu… - Radio …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Mars Orbiter Subsurface Investigation Radar (MOSIR) is carried by China's first Mars probe,
Tianwen-1 orbiter, investigating the Martian subsurface stratification. Surface clutter from …