Early Mars | List of Frontiers open access articles

Original Research

Published on 02 Jul 2021

Geomicrobiological Heterogeneity of Lithic Habitats in the Extreme Environment of Antarctic Nunataks: A Potential Early Mars Analog

in Extreme Microbiology

Miguel Ángel Fernández-Martínez
Miriam García-Villadangos
Mercedes Moreno-Paz
Valentin Gangloff
Daniel Carrizo
Yolanda Blanco
Sergi González
Laura Sánchez-García
Olga Prieto-Ballesteros
Ianina Altshuler

Frontiers in Microbiology

doi 10.3389/fmicb.2021.670982

5,791 views
7 citations

Original Research

Published on 13 May 2022

Formamide-Based Post-impact Thermal Prebiotic Synthesis in Simulated Craters: Intermediates, Products and Mechanism

in Astrobiology

Martin Ferus
Antonín Knížek
Lukáš Petera
Adam Pastorek
Jana Hrnčířová
Luboš Jankovič
Ondřej Ivanek
Jiří Šponer
Anna Křivková
Homa Saeidfirozeh

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2022.882145

4,081 views
9 citations

Hypothesis and Theory

Published on 20 Mar 2018

Nitrate-Dependent Iron Oxidation: A Potential Mars Metabolism

in Extreme Microbiology

Alex Price
Victoria K. Pearson
Susanne P. Schwenzer
Jennyfer Miot
Karen Olsson-Francis

Frontiers in Microbiology

doi 10.3389/fmicb.2018.00513

15,628 views
53 citations

Original Research

Published on 06 May 2019

Microbial Communities in Sediments From Four Mildly Acidic Ephemeral Salt Lakes in the Yilgarn Craton (Australia) – Terrestrial Analogs to Ancient Mars

in Extreme Microbiology

Joost W. Aerts
Rob J. M. van Spanning
Jessica Flahaut
Douwe Molenaar
Phil A. Bland
Matt J. Genge
Pascale Ehrenfreund
Zita Martins

Frontiers in Microbiology

doi 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00779

7,457 views
20 citations

Original Research

Published on 07 Feb 2022

Surface Morphologies in a Mars-Analog Ca-Sulfate Salar, High Andes, Northern Chile

in Astrobiology

Nancy W. Hinman
Michael H. Hofmann
Kimberly Warren-Rhodes
Michael S. Phillips
Nora Noffke
Nathalie A. Cabrol
Guillermo Chong Diaz
Cecilia Demergasso
Cinthya Tebes-Cayo
Oscar Cabestrero

Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences

doi 10.3389/fspas.2021.797591

19,421 views
13 citations

Original Research

Published on 03 May 2019

Microbiology and Nitrogen Cycle in the Benthic Sediments of a Glacial Oligotrophic Deep Andean Lake as Analog of Ancient Martian Lake-Beds

in Microbiological Chemistry and Geomicrobiology

Victor Parro
Fernando Puente-Sánchez
Nathalie A. Cabrol
Ignacio Gallardo-Carreño
Mercedes Moreno-Paz
Yolanda Blanco
Miriam García-Villadangos
Cristian Tambley
Virginie C. Tilot
Cody Thompson

Frontiers in Microbiology

doi 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00929

9,762 views
18 citations

Articles

Geomicrobiological Heterogeneity of Lithic Habitats in the Extreme Environment of Antarctic Nunataks: A Potential Early Mars Analog

Formamide-Based Post-impact Thermal Prebiotic Synthesis in Simulated Craters: Intermediates, Products and Mechanism

Nitrate-Dependent Iron Oxidation: A Potential Mars Metabolism

Microbial Communities in Sediments From Four Mildly Acidic Ephemeral Salt Lakes in the Yilgarn Craton (Australia) – Terrestrial Analogs to Ancient Mars

Surface Morphologies in a Mars-Analog Ca-Sulfate Salar, High Andes, Northern Chile

Microbiology and Nitrogen Cycle in the Benthic Sediments of a Glacial Oligotrophic Deep Andean Lake as Analog of Ancient Martian Lake-Beds