Potential habitability of present-day Mars subsurface for terrestrial-like methanogens
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| author | Butturini, Andrea Benaiges-Fernandez, Robert Fors, Octavi Garcia-Castellanos, Daniel |
| author_facet | Butturini, Andrea Benaiges-Fernandez, Robert Fors, Octavi Garcia-Castellanos, Daniel |
| contents | The intense debate about the presence of methane in the Martian atmosphere has stimulated the study of methanogens adapted to terrestrial habitats that mimic Martian environments. We examinate the environmental conditions, energy sources and ecology of terrestrial methanogens thriving in deep crystalline fractures, sub-sea hypersaline lakes and subglacial water bodies considered as analogs of a hypothetical habitable Martian subsurface. We combine this information with recent data on the distribution of buried water or ice and radiogenic elements on Mars and with models of the subsurface thermal regime of this planet to identify a 4.3-8.8 km-deep regolith habitat at the mid-latitude location of Acidalia Planitia, that might fit the requirements for hosting putative Martian methanogens analogous to the methanogenic families Methanosarcinaceae and Methanomicrobiaceae. |
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| spellingShingle | Potential habitability of present-day Mars subsurface for terrestrial-like methanogens Butturini, Andrea Benaiges-Fernandez, Robert Fors, Octavi Garcia-Castellanos, Daniel Earth and Planetary Astrophysics The intense debate about the presence of methane in the Martian atmosphere has stimulated the study of methanogens adapted to terrestrial habitats that mimic Martian environments. We examinate the environmental conditions, energy sources and ecology of terrestrial methanogens thriving in deep crystalline fractures, sub-sea hypersaline lakes and subglacial water bodies considered as analogs of a hypothetical habitable Martian subsurface. We combine this information with recent data on the distribution of buried water or ice and radiogenic elements on Mars and with models of the subsurface thermal regime of this planet to identify a 4.3-8.8 km-deep regolith habitat at the mid-latitude location of Acidalia Planitia, that might fit the requirements for hosting putative Martian methanogens analogous to the methanogenic families Methanosarcinaceae and Methanomicrobiaceae. |
| title | Potential habitability of present-day Mars subsurface for terrestrial-like methanogens |
| topic | Earth and Planetary Astrophysics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15064 |