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SUBMITTER: Culka A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4223862 | biostudies-other | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Culka Adam A Osterrothová Kateřina K Hutchinson Ian I Ingley Richard R McHugh Melissa M Oren Aharon A Edwards Howell G M HG Jehlička Jan J
Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences 20141201 2030
A prototype instrument, under development at the University of Leicester, for the future European Space Agency (ESA) ExoMars mission, was used for the analysis of microbial pigments within a stratified gypsum crust from a hypersaline saltern evaporation pond at Eilat (Israel). Additionally, the same samples were analysed using a miniaturized Raman spectrometer, featuring the same 532 nm excitation. The differences in the position of the specific bands, attributed to carotenoid pigments from diff ...[more]