Correlations Between Life-Detection Techniques and Implications for Sampling Site Selection in Planetary Analog Missions

• Published in: Astrobiology
• Main Authors: Gentry, Diana M., Amador, Elena S., Cable, Morgan L., Chaudry, Nosheen, Cullen, Thomas, Jacobsen, Malene B., Murukesan, Gayathri, Schwieterman, Edward W., Stevens, Adam H., Stockton, Amanda, Tan, George, Yin, Chang, Cullen, David C., Geppert, Wolf
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. 2017
• Subjects: Research Articles; Eldfell; Fimmvörðuháls; Iceland
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5686451/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29048222; https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2016.1575

We conducted an analog sampling expedition under simulated mission constraints to areas dominated by basaltic tephra of the Eldfell and Fimmvörðuháls lava fields (Iceland). Sites were selected to be “homogeneous” at a coarse remote sensing resolution (10–100 m) in apparent color, morphology, moistur...