@article{6409b44531f24a9c849945c767db9eb4,
title = "A habitable fluvio-lacustrine environment at Yellowknife Bay, Gale crater, Mars",
abstract = "The Curiosity rover discovered fine-grained sedimentary rocks, which are inferred to represent an ancient lake and preserve evidence of an environment that would have been suited to support a martian biosphere founded on chemolithoautotrophy. This aqueous environment was characterized by neutral pH, low salinity, and variable redox states of both iron and sulfur species. Carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen, and phosphorus were measured directly as key biogenic elements; by inference, phosphorus is assumed to have been available. The environment probably had a minimum duration of hundreds to tens of thousands of years. These results highlight the biological viability of fluvial-lacustrine environments in the post-Noachian history of Mars.",
author = "{MSL Science Team} and Grotzinger, {J. P.} and Sumner, {D. Y.} and Kah, {L. C.} and K. Stack and S. Gupta and L. Edgar and D. Rubin and K. Lewis and J. Schieber and N. Mangold and R. Milliken and Conrad, {P. G.} and D. DesMarais and J. Farmer and K. Siebach and F. Calef and J. Hurowitz and McLennan, {S. M.} and D. Ming and D. Vaniman and J. Crisp and A. Vasavada and Edgett, {K. S.} and M. Malin and D. Blake and R. Gellert and P. Mahaffy and Wiens, {R. C.} and S. Maurice and Grant, {J. A.} and S. Wilson and Anderson, {R. C.} and L. Beegle and R. Arvidson and B. Hallet and Sletten, {R. S.} and M. Rice and J. Bell and J. Griffes and B. Ehlmann and Anderson, {R. B.} and Bristow, {T. F.} and Dietrich, {W. E.} and G. Dromart and J. Eigenbrode and A. Fraeman and C. Hardgrove and K. Herkenhoff and L. Jandura and Christopher Edwards",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1126/science.1242777",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "343",
journal = "Science",
issn = "0036-8075",
publisher = "American Association for the Advancement of Science",
number = "6169",
}