Line 50: R1T (=ATCC 13939T=DSM 20539T) instead of R1 ATCC13939/DSM20539 Line 57: Are you sure that the Martian Analog soils were sterile before using?
The other potentially inactivating components of the plasma are not specified in the manuscript. For the argon-oxygen gas mixture it is stated that ‘high amounts of reactive oxygen species are formed in the plasma’ again without any qualitative and quantitative description. Estimations of the average free length of path for the inactivating plasma components might have been helpful for experiment planning.