In the manuscript ‘Testing the Effects of Low-Temperature Plasma-Sterilization on Mars Analog Soil Samples Intermixed with Deinococcus radiodurans’ by Schirmack et al., the results of the application of low-temperature plasma on Mars regolth simulant mixed with cells of the bacterium D. radiodurans were reported.
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