T Hoog, N Gaut, MR Pawlak, BF Bachan, AE Engelhart
Mars Extant Life: What’s Next? Held 5-8 November, 2019 in Carlsbad, New Mexico. LPI Contribution No. 2108, 2019, id.5098
Here we report our investigations of the behavior of nucleic acids in the presence of high concentrations of perchlorate. We further examine the consequences of such environments for the possibility of an RNA world — past or present — on Mars.