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Antunes, André; Olsson-Francis, Karen and McGenity, Terry J (2020). Exploring Deep-Sea Brines as Potential Terrestrial Analogues of Oceans in the Icy Moons of the Outer Solar System. Current Issues in Molecular Biology, 38 pp. 123–162.

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Barnes, Jessica J.; McCubbin, Francis M.; Santos, Alison R.; Day, James M. D.; Boyce, Jeremy W.; Schwenzer, Susanne P.; Ott, Ulrich; Franchi, Ian A.; Messenger, Scott; Anand, Mahesh and Agee, Carl B. (2020). Multiple early-formed water reservoirs in the interior of Mars. Nature Geoscience, 13(4) pp. 260–264.

Bedford, C. C.; Schwenzer, S.; Bridges, J. C.; Banham, S.; Wiens, R. C.; Gasnault, O.; Rampe, E. B.; Frydenvang, J. and Gasda, P. J. (2020). Geochemical variation in the Stimson formation of Gale crater: Provenance, mineral sorting, and a comparison with modern Martian dunes. Icarus, 341, article no. 113622.

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Cheney, Thomas; Newman, Christopher; Olsson-Francis, Karen; Steele, Scott; Pearson, Victoria and Lee, Simon (2020). Planetary Protection in the New Space Era: Science and Governance. Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences, 7, article no. 589817.

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Costello, Lacey J.; Filiberto, Justin; Crandall, Jake R.; Potter-McIntyre, Sally L.; Schwenzer, Susanne P.; Miller, Michael A.; Hummer, Daniel R.; Olsson-Francis, Karen and Perl, Scott (2020). Habitability of hydrothermal systems at Jezero and Gusev Craters as constrained by hydrothermal alteration of a terrestrial mafic dike. Geochemistry (Early access).

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Das, D.; Gasda, P. J.; Wiens, R. C.; Berlo, K.; Leveille, R. J.; Frydenvang, J.; Mangold, N.; Kronyak, R. E.; Schwenzer, S. P.; Forni, Olivier; Cousin, Agnes; Maurice, S. and Gasnault, O. (2020). Boron and Lithium in Calcium Sulfate Veins: Tracking Precipitation of Diagenetic Materials in Vera Rubin Ridge, Gale Crater. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 125(8)

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Grand, Ann; Davies, Sarah-Jane; Pearson, Victoria; Holliman, Richard and Olsson-Francis, Karen (2020). Openness and collaboration in astrobiology education. In: Europlanet Science Congress 2020, 21 Sep - 9 Oct 2020, Virtual.

Hamp, Rachael (2020). Could there be life on Enceladus? The Open University.

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Macey, M. C.; Fox-Powell, M.; Ramkissoon, N. K.; Stephens, B. P.; Barton, T.; Schwenzer, S. P.; Pearson, V. K.; Cousins, C. R. and Olsson-Francis, K. (2020). The identification of sulfide oxidation as a potential metabolism driving primary production on late Noachian Mars. Scientific reports, 10, article no. 10941.

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Macey, Michael; Ramkissoon, Nisha; Fox-Powell, Mark; Barton, Tim; Stephens, Ben P.; Schwenzer, Susanne P.; Pearson, Victoria K.; Cousins, Claire R. and Olsson-Francis, Karen (2020). Colour Peak:An analogue environment for the waters of late Noachian Mars. In: EANA 2020, 27-28 Aug 2020, Online.

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Macey, Michael C.; Pratscher, Jennifer; Crombie, Andrew T. and Murrell, J. Colin (2020). Impact of plants on the diversity and activity of methylotrophs in soil. Microbiome, 8(31)

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Morland, Z. S.; Pearson, V. K.; Patel, M. R.; Green, S. F.; Ramkissoon, N. K. and Spencer-Jones, C. L. (2020). Characterising the Transfer of Biomarkers within the Phobos-Mars System. In: 51st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference(2326).

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Morland, Zoe; Halim, Samuel; Pearson, Victoria; Patel, Manish; Green, Simon and Ramkissoon, Nisha (2020). Modelling the survival of ejected martian biomarkers impacting Phobos. In: EPSC Abstracts, Europlanet Science Congress 2020, article no. 254.

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Olsson-Francis, K.; Ramkissoon, N. K.; Macey, M.; Pearson, V. K.; Schwenzer, S. P. and Johnson, D. N. (2020). Simulating microbial processes in extraterrestrial, aqueous environments. Journal of Microbiological Methods, 172, article no. 105883.

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Preston, Louisa J.; Barcenilla, Rebeca; Dartnell, Lewis R.; Kucukkilic-Stephens, Ezgi and Olsson-Francis, Karen (2020). Infrared Spectroscopic Detection of Biosignatures at Lake Tírez, Spain: Implications for Mars. Astrobiology, 20(2) pp. 15–25.

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Price, Alexander Boyd (2020). Microbial Nitrate Dependent Fe²⁺ Oxidation: A Potential Early Mars Metabolism. PhD thesis The Open University.

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Semprich, Julia and Filiberto, Justin (2020). High‐pressure metamorphic mineralogy of the Martian crust with implications for density and seismic profiles. Meteoritics & Planetary Science (Early access).

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Semprich, Julia; Filiberto, Justin and Treiman, Allan H. (2020). Venus: A phase equilibria approach to model surface alteration as a function of rock composition, oxygen- and sulfur fugacities. Icarus, 346, article no. 113779.

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Taubner, Ruth-Sophie; Olsson-Francis, Karen; Vance, Steven D.; Ramkissoon, Nisha K.; Postberg, Frank; de Vera, Jean-Pierre; Antunes, André; Camprubi Casas, Eloi; Sekine, Yasuhito; Noack, Lena; Barge, Laura; Goodman, Jason; Jebbar, Mohamed; Journaux, Baptiste; Karatekin, Özgür; Klenner, Fabian; Rabbow, Elke; Rettberg, Petra; Rückriemen-Bez, Tina; Saur, Joachim; Shibuya, Takazo and Soderlund, Krista M. (2020). Experimental and Simulation Efforts in the Astrobiological Exploration of Exooceans. Space Science Reviews, 216(1), article no. 9.

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Turner, S.M.R.; Schwenzer, S.P.; Bridges, J.C.; Rampe, E.B.; Bedford, C.C.; Achilles, C.N.; McAdam, A.; Mangold, N.; Hicks, L.J.; Parnell, J.; Kirnbauer, T.; Fraeman, A.A. and Reed, M.H. (2020). Enhanced groundwater flow on and below Vera Rubin ridge, the Murray Formation, Gale Crater: Evidence from thermochemical modeling. In: 51st Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 16-20 Mar 2020 (Cancelled), Houston, USA.

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Cheney, Thomas (2019). There's No Rush: Developing a Legal Framework for Space Resource Activities. Journal of Space Law, 43 pp. 106–150.

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Fox-Powell, Mark; Osinski, Gordon; Applin, Daniel; Stromberg, Jessica; Gázquez, Fernando; Cloutis, Ed; Allender, Elyse and Cousins, Claire (2019). Natural Analogue Constraints on Europa's Non-ice surface Material. Geophysical Research Letters, 46(11) pp. 5759–5767.

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Morland, Z.S.; Pearson, V.K.; Patel, M.R.; Green, S.F. and Ramkissoon, N.K. (2019). Transfer of Biomarkers in the Phobos-Mars System: Hyper-Velocity Impact Investigations using a Light Gas Gun. In: 2nd British Planetary Science Conference, 13-15 Jan 2020, Oxford, UK.

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Nachshon, Uri; Baharier, Bea; Ogungbile, Abraham and Katzir, Roee (2019). Impact of Slope Inclination on Salt Accumulation Due to Bare Soil Evaporation. Soil Science Society of America Journal, 83(6) pp. 1655–1663.

Payler, Samuel; Biddle, Jennifer; Sherwood Lollar, Barbara; Fox-Powell, Mark; Edwards, Thomas; Ngwenya, Bryne; Paling, Sean and Cockell, Charles (2019). An Ionic Limit to Life in the Deep Subsurface. Frontiers in Microbiology, 10, article no. 426.

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Pratesi, Giovanni; Caporali, Stefano; Greenwood, Richard; Moggi Cecchi, Vanni and Franchi, Ian (2019). A detailed mineralogical, petrographic, and geochemical study of the highly reduced chondrite, Acfer 370. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 54(12) pp. 2996–3017.

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Ramkissoon, Nisha K.; Pearson, Victoria K.; Schwenzer, Susanne P.; Schröder, Christian; Kirnbauer, Thomas; Wood, Deborah; Seidel, Robert G. W.; Miller, Michael A. and Olsson-Francis, Karen (2019). New simulants for martian regolith: Controlling iron variability. Planetary and Space Science, 179, article no. 104722.

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Turner, S.M.R.; Schwenzer, S.P.; Bridges, J.C.; Bedford, C.C.; Rampe, E.B.; Fraeman, A.A.; McAdam, A.; Mangold, N. and L'Haridon, J. (2019). Thermochemical Modelling of Fluid-Rock Reactions in Vera Rubin ridge, Gale Crater, Mars. In: 50th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, 18-22 Mar 2019, The Woodlands, Houston, Texas, USA.

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Fox-Powell, Mark; Channing, Alan; Applin, Daniel; Cloutis, Ed; Preston, Louisa and Cousins, Claire (2018). Cryogenic silicification of microorganisms in hydrothermal fluids. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 498 pp. 1–8.

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Fox-Powell, Mark and Cockell, Charles (2018). Building a Geochemical View of Microbial Salt Tolerance: Halophilic Adaptation of Marinococcus in a Natural Magnesium Sulfate Brine. Frontiers in Microbiology, 9, article no. 739.

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Fox-Powell, Mark; Hallsworth, John; Cousins, Claire and Cockell, Charles (2016). Ionic strength is a barrier to the habitability of Mars. Astrobiology, 16(6) pp. 427–442.

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Stevenson, Andrew; Burkhardt, Jürgen; Cockell, Charles S.; Cray, Jonathan A.; Dijksterhuis, Jan; Fox-Powell, Mark; Kee, Terence P.; Kminek, Gerhard; McGenity, Terry J.; Timmis, Kenneth N.; Timson, David J.; Voytek, Mary A.; Westall, Frances; Yakimov, Michail M. and Hallsworth, John E. (2015). Multiplication of microbes below 0.690 water activity: implications for terrestrial and extraterrestrial life. Environmental Microbiology, 17(2) pp. 257–277.

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Wahga, Aqueel Imtiaz; Rahim, Eric; Aftab, Khalid; Ahson, Uzair and Aslam, Raees (2010). Fan Industry of Pakistan: Growth Dynamics of Small, Medium and Large Enterprises. Allied Press Pvt. Limited, 26 Shahrah-e-Quaid-e-Azam, Lahore, Pakistan, Pakistan.

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