2 papers
astro-ph.EP2018
Paleo-Rock-Hosted Life on Earth and the Search on Mars: a Review and Strategy for Exploration
T. C. Onstott, B. L. Ehlmann, H. Sapers +5
We review the abundance and diversity of terrestrial rock hosted life, the environments it inhabits, the evolution of its metabolisms, and its fossil biomarkers to provide guidance…
astro-ph.EP2018
Valuing life detection missions
Edwin S. Kite, Eric Gaidos, Tullis C. Onstott
Recent discoveries imply that Early Mars was habitable for life-as-we-know-it; that Enceladus might be habitable; and that many stars have Earth-sized exoplanets whose insolation f…