Evidence for biomarkers and microfossils in ancient rocks and meteorites

Richard B. Hoover; Alexei Yu. Rozanov

doi:10.1117/12.435380

3 August 2001 Evidence for biomarkers and microfossils in ancient rocks and meteorites

Richard B. Hoover, Alexei Yu. Rozanov

Proceedings Volume 4273, The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in the Optical Spectrum III; (2001) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.435380
Event: Photonics West 2001 - LASE, 2001, San Jose, CA, United States

Abstract

We review prior studies of chemical and morphological biomarkers in ancient rocks and meteorites and present recently obtained ESEM images of microfossils and nanofossils in-situ in freshly fractured surfaces of Nogoya and pristine samples of Murchison as further evidence of indigenous microfossils in meteorites.

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Richard B. Hoover and Alexei Yu. Rozanov "Evidence for biomarkers and microfossils in ancient rocks and meteorites", Proc. SPIE 4273, The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) in the Optical Spectrum III, (3 August 2001); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.435380

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