Earth to Mars: A Protocol for Characterizing Permafrost in the Context of Climate Change as an Analog for Extraplanetary Exploration

• Published in: Astrobiology
• Main Authors: Miner, Kimberley R., Hollis, Joseph Razzell, Miller, Charles E., Uckert, Kyle, Douglas, Thomas A., Cardarelli, Emily, Mackelprang, Rachel
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers 2023
• Subjects: Research Articles; Perseverance; Kya; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10510695/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37566539; https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2022.0155

Permafrost is important from an exobiology and climate change perspective. It serves as an analog for extraplanetary exploration, and it threatens to emit globally significant amounts of greenhouse gases as it thaws due to climate change. Viable microbes survive in Earth's permafrost, slowly me...