Amino Acid Biosignatures - Implications for the Detection of Extinct or Extant Microbial Communities on Mars

• Main Author: Aubrey, Andrew D
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2008
• Subjects: Antarctic; Urey; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/64t3j1jz

Investigations of Mars have recently found strong geochemical evidence for the presence of standing bodies of water early in the planet’s history. It still remains to be discovered whether organic compounds exist on Mars, a question which concurrent international scientific efforts are focused on fo...