The affect of the space environment on the survival of Halorubrum chaoviator and Synechococcus (Nägeli): data from the Space Experiment OSMO on EXPOSE-R
@article{Mancinelli2014TheAO, title={The affect of the space environment on the survival of Halorubrum chaoviator and Synechococcus (N{\"a}geli): data from the Space Experiment OSMO on EXPOSE-R}, author={Rocco L. Mancinelli}, journal={International Journal of Astrobiology}, year={2014}, volume={14}, pages={123 - 128} }
Abstract We have shown using ESA's Biopan facility flown in Earth orbit that when exposed to the space environment for 2 weeks the survival rate of Synechococcus (Nägeli), a halophilic cyanobacterium isolated from the evaporitic gypsum–halite crusts that form along the marine intertidal, and Halorubrum chaoviator a member of the Halobacteriaceae isolated from an evaporitic NaCl crystal obtained from a salt evaporation pond, were higher than all other test organisms except Bacillus spores. These…
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