Instruments, Methods, and Missions for Astrobiology II, Richard B. Hoover, Editors, pp.48-58
Date: 30 December 1999
Paper Abstract
The article deals with paleomicrobiological analyses of litified remnants of microbial organisms from carbon hondrites of Murchison, Efremovka and Alliende meteorites as well as general analyses of mineral composition of carbon meteorites. On the basis of this analyses the assumption is made that the cyanobacterial community (mat) from hydrothermal areas of active volcanic zone was most likely to be the ancient ecological system on space objects. It has been demonstrated that hydrothermal process has been exerting great influence on transformation of primary hyperacidites mineral matrix and on biogenic carbon substance. The article presents the results of the analyses of microphotos of lunar regolith particles published earlier, which confirmed that lunar rock contains fossilized remnants of microbial organisms, that most probably had been functioning in hydrothermal springs.
DOI: 10.1117/12.375086 Current SPIE Digital Library subscribers click here to download this paper.
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