Listar Artículos científicos por autor "Fairén, Alberto G."
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Can Halophilic and Psychrophilic Microorganisms Modify the Freezing/Melting Curve of Cold Salty Solutions? Implications for Mars Habitability (2020)
Garcia-Descalzo, Laura; Gil-Lozano, Carolina; Muñoz-Iglesias, Victoria; Prieto-Ballesteros, Olga; Azua-Bustos, Armando; Fairén, Alberto G. (NLM (Medline), 2020-09-01)We present the hypothesis that microorganisms can change the freezing/melting curve of cold salty solutions by protein expression, as it is known that proteins can affect the liquid-to-ice transition, an ability that could ... -
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Crystalline water in gypsum is unavailable for cyanobacteria in laboratory experiments and in natural desert endolithic habitats (2020)
Wierzchos, Jacek; Artieda, Octavio; Ascaso, Carmen; Nieto García, Fernando; Vítek, Petr; Azua-Bustos, Armando; Fairén, Alberto G. (NLM (Medline), 2020-11-10) -
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Dark microbiome and extremely low organics in Atacama fossil delta unveil Mars life detection limits (2024)
Azua-Bustos, Armando; Fairén, Alberto G.; González-Silva, Carlos; Prieto-Ballesteros, Olga; Carrizo, Daniel; Sánchez-García, Laura; Parro, Victor; Fernández-Martínez, Miguel Ángel; Escudero, Cristina; Muñoz-Iglesias, Victoria; ... (Nature Research, 2023)Identifying unequivocal signs of life on Mars is one of the most important objectives for sending missions to the red planet. Here we report Red Stone, a 163-100 My alluvial fan–fan delta that formed under arid conditions ... -
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Fundamental Science and Engineering Questions in Planetary Cave Exploration (2024)
Wynne, J. Judson; Titus, Timothy N.; Agha-Mohammadi, Ali-akbar; Azua-Bustos, Armando; Boston, Penelope J.; de León, Pablo; Demirel-Floyd, Cansu; De Waele, Jo; Jones, Heather; Malaska, Michael J.; ... (John Wiley and Sons Inc, 2022)Nearly half a century ago, two papers postulated the likelihood of lunar lava tube caves using mathematical models. Today, armed with an array of orbiting and fly-by satellites and survey instrumentation, we have now ... -
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Inhabited subsurface wet smectites in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert as an analog for the search for life on Mars (2020)
Azua-Bustos, Armando; Fairén, Alberto G.; González Silva, Carlos; Carrizo, Daniel; Fernández-Martínez, Miguel Ángel; Arenas-Fajardo, Cristián; Fernández-Sampedro, Maite; Gil-Lozano, Carolina; Sánchez-García, Laura; Ascaso, Carmen; ... (Nature Research, 2020-12-01)The modern Martian surface is unlikely to be habitable due to its extreme aridity among other environmental factors. This is the reason why the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert has been studied as an analog for the ... -
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The Atacama Desert in Northern Chile as an Analog Model of Mars (2022)
Azua-Bustos, Armando; González-Silva, Carlos; Fairén, Alberto G. (Frontiers Media S.A., 2022-01-12)The Atacama Desert is by far the driest and oldest desert on Earth, showing a unique combination of environmental extremes (extreme dryness, the highest UV radiation levels on Earth, and highly saline and oxidizing soils), ...