Amino acid biosignatures : implications for the detection of extinct or extant microbial communities on Mars

• Main Author: Aubrey, Andrew D.
• Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2008
• Subjects: UCSD. Oceanography. (Discipline) Dissertations; Academic; Antarctic; Urey; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/9c3794nr; http://n2t.net/ark:/20775/bb6724571m

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...