Sergio Valea

Hygroscopic Salts and the Potential for Life on Mars

Alfonso F. Dávila, L. Gago-Duport, Riccardo Melchiorri et al. · Astrobiology · 2010 · 160 citations · Full text

Microbial colonization of halite from the hyper-arid Atacama Desert studied by Raman spectroscopy

Pavel Vítek, Howell G. M. Edwards, Jan Jehlička et al. · Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences · 2010 · 130 citations

Engineering, Atacama Desert, Earth Science +16

Microbial diversity and the presence of algae in halite endolithic communities are correlated to atmospheric moisture in the hyper‐arid zone of the <scp>A</scp> tacama <scp>D</scp> esert

Courtney K. Robinson, Jacek Wierzchoś, Celeste Black et al. · Environmental Microbiology · 2013 · 113 citations · Full text

Comparative analysis of the microbial communities inhabiting halite evaporites of the Atacama Desert.

Asunción de los Rı́os, Sergio Valea, Carmen Ascaso et al. · PubMed · 2010 · 108 citations · Full text

Ignimbrite as a substrate for endolithic life in the hyper-arid Atacama Desert: Implications for the search for life on Mars

Jacek Wierzchoś, Alfonso F. Dávila, Octavio Artieda et al. · Icarus · 2012 · 77 citations

Biosignature, Hyper-arid Atacama Desert, Engineering +6