Sweet Honey in the Rock: Cultivating and Characterizing the Biosignatures of Chemotrophic Microorganisms on Mars Analog Substrates


Cecilia Sanders1, Victoria J Orphan2, Bethany L Ehlmann3, Sean William Mullin1, Haley M Sapers4 and John P Grotzinger5, (1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)California Institute of Technology, Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, United States, (3)California Institute of Technology, Geological and Planetary Sciences, Pasadena, CA, United States, (4)University of Western Ontario, Centre for Planetary Science and Exploration, London, ON, Canada, (5)Caltech, Pasadena, United States