Patterned Growth in Extreme Environments
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Boston, Penelope; Curnutt, Jane; Gomez, Ernesto; Schubert, Keith; Strader, Brian
- Source
- 2009 Third IEEE International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology, 2009. SMC-IT 2009. Third IEEE International Conference on. :221-226 Jul, 2009
- Subject
- Aerospace
Transportation
Computer science
Pattern recognition
Earth
Space missions
Differential equations
Automata
Mars
Geology
Organisms
Predictive models
extraterrestrial life
cellular automata
extremophile
biovermiculation
- Language
Abstract—In the search for life on Mars and other extraterrestrial bodies, one of the biggest problems facing us is, how do we recognize life or the remains of ancient life when we find it? We will need to recognize residual patterns left by life. One approach to recognizing these kinds of patterns is look at patterns created and left by life in extreme environments here on Earth.