Biomarker Preservation Potential of Subsurface Ecosystems
Abstract
If surface life emerged on Mars it may have succumbed to a Gaian bottleneck, whereas subsurface life would have continued to grow and evolve sheltered in rocks with sub-freezing saline pore water and their remains preserved in excavated rock.
- Publication:
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Biosignature Preservation and Detection in Mars Analog Environments
- Pub Date:
- May 2016
- Bibcode:
- 2016LPICo1912.2041O