Accession Number:

AD0488784

Title:

STUDIES WITH A SIMULATED MARTIAN ENVIRONMENT. BACTERIAL SYNERGISM: PRELIMINARY SYSTEMS

Descriptive Note:

Technical documentary rept.

Corporate Author:

SCHOOL OF AEROSPACE MEDICINE BROOKS AFB TX

Personal Author(s):

• Roberts, Thomas L.
• Ball, Robert J.
• Wynne, E. S.

Report Date:

1963-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

9.0

Abstract:

Simulated Martian environment permitted survival of endospores of Bacillus cereus but not the photosynthetic nitrogen-fixing soil bacterium, Rhodospirillum rubrium. There was no evidence of a synergistic relationship. Observed increases in colony counts of B. cereus appeared due to temperature cycling.

Descriptors:

• *BACTERIA
• SIMULATION
• TEMPERATURE
• SPORES
• SOILS
• SURVIVAL(PERSONNEL)
• ATMOSPHERE MODELS
• MICROORGANISMS
• PHOTOSYNTHESIS
• PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES
• BACILLUS CEREUS
• EXTRATERRESTRIAL BASES
• MARS PROBES
• MARS(PLANET)

Subject Categories:

• Stress Physiology
• Microbiology

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE