Research Catalog

Title

Instruments, methods, and missions for astrobiology V : 22-23 August, 2002, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA / Richard B. Hoover, Alexei Yu. Rozanov, Roland R. Paepe, chairs/editors ; sponsored and published by SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering ; cooperating organizations, International Commission for Optics [and others].

Publication

Bellingham, Wash., USA : SPIE, [2003], ©2003.

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Additional Authors

• Hoover, Richard B.
• Rozanov, A. I︠U︡. (Alekseĭ I︠U︡rʹevich)
• Paepe, Roland R.
• Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers.
• International Commission for Optics.

Description

viii, 170 pages : illustrations, maps; 28 cm.

Series Statement

SPIE proceedings series ; v. 4859

Uniform Title

Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering ; v. 4859.

Subject

• Space microbiology > Congresses
• Life on other planets > Remote sensing > Congresses
• Extreme environments > Microbiology > Congresses
• Exobiology > Congresses
• Micropaleontology > Congresses

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and author index.

Contents

• Siderite globules associated with fossil microbiota from cretaceous cavity and fracture fillings in Southern Belgium: Second known terrestrial analog for the carbonate in Martian meteorite ALH84001? / J.-M. Baele -- Biomarkers and microfossils in the Murchison, Rainbow, and Tagish Lake meteorites / R. B. Hoover, G. A. Jerman, A. Yu. Rozanov and P. C. W. Davies -- Performance characteristics of the PAW instrumentation on Beagle 2: the astrobiology lander on ESA's Mars Express Mission / M. R. Sims, D. Pullan, G. W. Fraser, S. Whitehead, J. Sykes, J. Holt, G. I. Butcher, N. Nelms, J. Dowson, D. Ross, C. Bicknell, M. Crocker, B. Favill, A. A. Wells, L. Richter, H. Kochan, H. Hamacher, L. Ratke, A. D. Griffiths, A. J. Coates, N. Phillips, A. Senior, J. C. Zarnecki, M. C. Towner, M. R. Leese, M. Patel, C. Wilson, N. Thomas, S. Hviid, J. L. Josset, G. Klingelhofer, B. Bernhardt, P. van Duijn, G. Sims and K. L. Yung --
• Compact high-resolution 3D imaging spectrometer for discovering oases on mars / J. Ge, D. Ren, J. I. Lunine, R. H. Brown, R. V. Yelle and L. A. Soderblom -- Dissolution cavities in Upper Ordovician sandstones from Lake Ontario: Analogs to vesiculated rocks on Mars? / B. E. DiGregorio -- Detection of biomarkers of viable life in using immunoassay / D. M. Warmflash, D. S. McKay, G. E. Fox, A. Steele, J. Maule, K. Lynch and C. C. Allen -- A sterile robotic Mars soil analyzer / G. V. Levin, J. D. Miller, P. A. Straat and R. B. Hoover -- Tandem transmission/reflection mode XRD instrument including XRF for in-situ measurement of Martian rocks and soils / R. Delhez, S. J. van der Gaast, A. A. Wielders, J. L. de Boer, R. B. Helmholdt, J. B. van Mechelen, C. A. Reiss, L. Woning and H. Schenk -- Red soils on Earth and their significance for Mars / R. R. Paepe, E. S. Van Overloop, R. B. Hoover, S. Nassopoulou, P. D. Kafumu and D. Wang --
• Palaeodynamic sedimentary cycles on Mars in resonance with short similar cycles on Earth / E. S. Van Overloop, R. R. Paepe and R. B. Hoover -- Astroenzymology: the environmental limits of enzyme activity / R. M. Daniel -- Anaerobic halo-alkaliphilic bacterial community of athalassic hypersaline from Mono Lake and Owens Lake in California / E. V. Pikuta, E. N. Detkova, A. K. Bej, D. Marsic and R. B. Hoover -- Origins of the protein synthesis machinery: a genomics and structural perspective / G. E. Fox, J. Hury, U. Nagaswamy, J. Wang and A. K. Naik -- The expanding horizons of cosmic life / N. C. Wickramasinghe, J. V. Narlikar, J. T. Wickramasinghe and M. Wainwright -- Evidence for micro-organisms in stratospheric air samples collected at a height of 41km / M. Wainwright, N. C. Wickramasinghe, J. V. Narlikar and P. Rajaratnam.

ISBN

0819446386

OCLC

• ocm51953770
• SCSB-4350113

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries