An assessment of microbial mat and microbially influenced mineral age, carbon bigeochemistry, lipid profiles, and eukaryotic and prokaryotic community structure in lava caves to inform life detection targets.


Brittany Kruger1, Duane P Moser2, Diana E Northup3, Magdalena R Osburn4, Jennifer J.M. Hathaway3, Mike Spilde5, Jennifer Blank6 and Katerina Papp7, (1)Desert Research Institute Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV, United States, (2)Desert Research Institute, Division of Hydrologic Sciences, Las Vegas, United States, (3)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, United States, (4)Northwestern University, Earth and Planetary Sciences, Evanston, United States, (5)University of New Mexico Main Campus, Albuquerque, NM, United States, (6)NASA Ames Research Center, Division of Space Sciences and Astrobiology, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (7)University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, United States
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