The solar UV environment and bacterial spore UV resistance: considerations for Earth-to-Mars transport by natural processes and human spaceflight
- 1 April 2005
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Elsevier in Mutation Research - Fundamental and Molecular Mechanisms of Mutagenesis
- Vol. 571 (1-2) , 249-264
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mrfmmm.2004.10.012
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