The identification of sulfide oxidation as potential metabolism driving primary production on late Noachian Mars

• Main Authors: Macey, Michael C, Fox-Powell, Mark, Ramkissoon, Nisha K, Baharier, Bea, Oliver, James A W, Stephens, Ben, Schwenzer, Susanne P, Pearson, Victoria K, Cousins, Claire R, Olsson-Francis, Karen
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Arctic; Colour Peak; Rian; Yellowknife; Yellowknife Bay
• Online Access: https://oro.open.ac.uk/78293/; https://oro.open.ac.uk/78293/1/LPSC%202021%20Macey%20SUBMIT.pdf; https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lpsc2021/pdf/1139.pdf

Introduction: The surface of Mars cannot sus-tain liquid water today, but there is evidence for the extended presence of liquid water during the Noa-chian era [1-2]. The transition of the martian cli-mate from the wet Noachian to the dry, late Hespe-rian would have resulted in saline and sulfur-rich...