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Penelope Jane Boston
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The Development and Demonstration of the Portable Acousto‐Optic Spectrometer for Astrobiology in Cave Environments
EARTH AND SPACE SCIENCE
10 february 2023
Nancy Chanover, Penelope J. Boston, Kyle Uckert, D...
Planetary caves are desirable environments for the search for biosignatures corresponding to extant or extinct extraterrestrial life due to the pro...
Fundamental Science and Engineering Questions in Planetary Cave Exploration
JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH: PLANETS
02 november 2022
Jut Wynne, Timothy N. Titus, Ali-akbar Agha-Mohamm...
Nearly half a century ago, two papers postulated the likelihood of lunar lava tube caves using mathematical models. Today, armed with an array of o...
The Tracks of the Beast: Applying Physical, Chemical, Elemental, and Mineralogical Patterns to Macroscopic and Microscopic Biosignature Verification
INNOVATIVE BIOSIGNATURE AND LIFE DETECTION TECHNOLOGIES III ORAL
subsurface habitability and life | 19 may 2022
Penelope J. Boston
Life is a complex phenomenon, thus its identification in extreme environments on Earth often requires many lines of evidence to make a convincing case...
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Energy Related Application of Calorimetry for Life Detection
INNOVATIVE BIOSIGNATURE AND LIFE DETECTION TECHNOLOGIES III ORAL
subsurface habitability and life | 19 may 2022
Heather Smith, Yuri V. Griko, Penelope J. Boston, ...
A fundamental requirement for all life as we know it (water and carbon-based) and for potential life that we do not yet know (possibly based on silico...
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Sulfur and carbon isotopes as tracers of subsurface water-rock-microbial interactions in hydrogen sulfide-rich springs, northern Sierra de Chiapas, Mexico
ACIDOPHILES AND THEIR MINERAL HABITATS I ORAL
energy sources and metabolic pathways in the environment | 19 may 2022
Laura Rosales Lagarde, Penelope J. Boston, Andrew ...
Spring waters rich in sulfur concentrations have been found in the surface and inside caves in the northern Sierra de Chiapas, Mexico. The source of t...
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Astrovirology from an Astromicrobiologists Point of View: Why We Must Pay Attention to Our Virus Companions
ASTROVIROLOGY: IMPACTS ON BIOGEOCHEMISTRY AND BIOSIGNATURES, THE PERPETUATION OF GENETIC INFORMATION AND INSIGHTS INTO THE ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION OF LIFE I ORAL
evolution and diversification of life: ool to luca to eukaryogenesis | 16 may 2022
Penelope J. Boston
Viruses matter a great deal to all of microbiology including that part of astrobiology. It's time to collaborate. ...
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MACIE: Mars Astrobiological Caves and Internal Habitability Explorer (a New Frontiers Mission Concept) for the next decade
THE NEW MARS UNDERGROUND (AND BEYOND) 3.0 I
planetary sciences | 14 december 2020
Charity M. Phillips-Lander, Jennifer G. Blank, Kyl...
Post-Noachian Mars’ (<3.1 Ga) surface conditions degraded rapidly, rendering these environments inhospitable to life as we know it. Brines and meta...
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Scientific goals for the Venus Flagship Mission's aerobot
BALLOONS IN EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCES: RESEARCH, APPLICATIONS, AND EMERGING CONCEPTS I ELIGHTNING
planetary sciences | 11 december 2020
Colin F. Wilson, Martha S. Gilmore, Patricia M. Be...
The Venus Flagship Mission (VFM), a Decadal mission concept study, includes a variable altitude balloon operating at altitudes from 52 km (where p = 0...
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