Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology
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Astrobiologist Kennda Lynch Uses Analogs On Earth to Find Life On Mars

by Keith Cowing

If we find life on the Red Planet, we’ll have astrobiologists like Dr. Kennda Lynch to thank. Lynch is an astrobiologist and geomicrobiologist studying life in extreme environments on Earth […]

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BioAsteroid Payload On Orbit

by Keith Cowing

Inside one of the containers of this 40-cm-across miniature laboratory in orbit, a battle is set to start between asteroid-like fragments and rock-hungry microbes, to probe their use for space […]

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Microbes To Demonstrate Biomining Of Asteroid Material Aboard The Space Station

by Keith Cowing

As humanity moves closer to the possibility of living and working millions of miles from Earth on planets like Mars, scientists are looking beyond our planet at how to acquire […]

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Mineralogy of a Sulfate-rich Inverted Channel in the Atacama Desert, Chile: Clues to its Formation and Preservation

by Keith Cowing

We have performed a stratigraphic and mineralogical analysis of a vertical transect across a ridge located at the distal end of a system of eroded alluvial deposits in the northern […]

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