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Chapter Thirteen - Analytical astrobiology: the search for life signatures and the remote detection of biomarkers through their Raman spectral interrogation

from Part IV - Life and habitability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2020

By
Howell G.M. Edwards  and
Jan Jehlička
Edited by
Guido di Prisco ,
Howell G. M. Edwards ,
Josef Elster  and
Ad H. L. Huiskes
Guido di Prisco
Affiliation:
National Research Council of Italy
Howell G. M. Edwards
Affiliation:
University of Bradford
Josef Elster
Affiliation:
University of South Bohemia, Czech Republic
Ad H. L. Huiskes
Affiliation:
Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research
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Summary

The application of Raman spectroscopic techniques to the characterisation of the protective biochemicals used in the survival strategies of extremophilic organisms in terrestrially stressed environments (Wynn-Williams and Edwards, 2000a, 2000b), coupled with the palaeogeological recognition that early Mars and Earth had maintained similar environments under which Archaean cyanobacteria could have developed (McKay,1997), has driven the proposal for the adoption of Raman spectroscopy as novel analytical instrumentation for planetary exploration

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Life in Extreme Environments
Insights in Biological Capability
 , pp. 301 - 318
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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