Browsing BIO Faculty Scholarship by Author "Farhat, Omar"

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Bacterial growth tolerance to concentrations of chlorate and perchlorate salts relevant to Mars

Alsoudi, Amer F.; Farhat, Omar; Chen, Fei; Clark, Benton C.; Schneegurt, Mark A. (Cambridge University Press, 2017-07)

The Phoenix lander at Mars polar cap found appreciable levels of (per)chlorate salts, a mixture of perchlorate and chlorate salts of Ca, Fe, Mg and Na at levels of similar to 0.6% in regolith. These salts are highly ...