Extraterrestrial life

Cave Biosignature Suites: Microbes, Minerals, and Mars

Penelope J. Boston, M. Spilde, Diana E. Northup, Leslie A. Melim, D.S. Soroka, L.G. Kleina, Kathleen H. Lavoie, Louise D. Hose, Lawrence M. Mallory, C. N. Dahm, Laura J. Crossey, Rachel T. Schelble

Citations: 231 • 2001

Drilling Systems for Extraterrestrial Subsurface Exploration

K. Zacny, Yoseph Bar‐Cohen, Matthew C. Brennan, G. A. Briggs, Graham Cooper, Kiel Davis, Benjamin P. Dolgin, David Glaser, B. Glass, S. Gorevan, Jose C. Guerrero, Christopher P. McKay, G. Paulsen, Scott Stanley, C. Stoker

Citations: 194 • 2008

Understanding the Application of Raman Spectroscopy to the Detection of Traces of Life

Craig P. Marshall, Howell G. M. Edwards, Jan Jehlička

Citations: 187 • 2010

Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) applied to terrestrial and extraterrestrial analogue geomaterials with emphasis to minerals and rocks

N. Senesi

Citations: 149 • 2014

Lipids as Universal Biomarkers of Extraterrestrial Life

Christos D. Georgiou, David W. Deamer

Citations: 115 • 2014

The provenance, formation, and implications of reduced carbon phases in Martian meteorites

A. Steele, F. M. McCubbin, M. Fries

Citations: 112 • 2016

Morphological Biosignatures in Early Terrestrial and Extraterrestrial Materials

Francès Westall

Citations: 82 • 2008

The progress of extraterrestrial regolith-sampling robots

Tao Zhang, Kun Xu, Zhixiao Yao, Xilun Ding, Zeng Zhao, Xuyan Hou, Yong Pang, Xiaoming Lai, Wenming Zhang, Shuting Liu, Jianfeng Deng

Citations: 79 • 2019

Raman Spectroscopic Analysis of Geological and Biogeological Specimens of Relevance to the ExoMars Mission

Howell G. M. Edwards, Ian B. Hutchinson, Richard Ingley, John Parnell, Petr Vítek, Jan Jehlička

Citations: 71 • 2013

Review on planetary regolith-sampling technology

Tao Zhang, Bin Wang, Hongyu Wei, Yinliang Zhang, Chaoyue Chao, Kun Xu, Xilun Ding, Xuyan Hou, Zeng Zhao

Citations: 68 • 2021

Serpentinite and the search for life beyond Earth

S. Vance, Mohit Melwani Daswani

Citations: 67 • 2020

Prebiotic materials from on and off the early Earth

Citations: 63 • 2006

Perspectives in astrobiology

Richard B. Hoover, A. Yu. Rozanov, Roland Paepe

Citations: 61 • 2005

Biomarkers and their Raman spectroscopic signatures: a spectral challenge for analytical astrobiology

Howell G. M. Edwards, Ian B. Hutchinson, Richard Ingley, Jan Jehlička

Citations: 60 • 2014

SOLID2: An Antibody Array-Based Life-Detector Instrument in a Mars Drilling Simulation Experiment (MARTE)

Vı́ctor Parro, Patricia Fernández‐Calvo, J. A. Rodríguez‐Manfredi, Mercedes Moreno‐Paz, Luis A. Rivas, Miriam García‐Villadangos, R. Bonaccorsi, José Eduardo González‐Pastor, O. Prieto‐Ballesteros, Andrew C. Schuerger, Mark M. Davidson, Javier Gómez‐Elvira, C. Stoker

Citations: 59 • 2008

Raman imaging of extraterrestrial materials

Alian Wang, R. L. Korotev, Bradley L. Jolliff, Zongcheng Ling

Citations: 58 • 2014

Robotic Antarctic meteorite search: outcomes

Dimitrios Socrates Apostolopoulos, Lasse Heje Pedersen, Ben Shamah, Kimberly Shillcutt, Michael D. Wagner, William Whittaker

Citations: 51 • 2002

Searching for Life on Mars Before It Is Too Late

Alberto González Fairén, Vı́ctor Parro, Dirk Schulze‐Makuch, Lyle G. Whyte

Citations: 50 • 2017

Astrobiology and habitability studies in preparation for future Mars missions: trends from investigating minerals, organics and biota

P. Ehrenfreund, Wilfred F. M. Röling, Cora S. Thiel, R. C. Quinn, Mark A. Sephton, C. Stoker, J. Michelle Kotler, S. Direito, Zita Martins, Grazyna E. Orzechowska, Richard Kidd, C.A. van Sluis, Bernard Foing

Citations: 47 • 2011

Microchip capillary electrophoresis instrumentation for in situ analysis in the search for extraterrestrial life

María F. Mora, Amanda M. Stockton, Peter A. Willis

Citations: 47 • 2012