Preliminary spectroscopic investigation of a potential Mars analog site: Lake Bagno dell’Acqua, Pantelleria, Italy

Bruschini, Enrico; Ferrari, Marco; Mazzoni, Cristina; Fazi, Stefano; Chiocci, Francesco Latino; Mazzini, Ilaria; Costanzo, Giovanna; De Angelis, Simone; De Sanctis, Maria Cristina; Altieri, Francesca; Brossier, Jeremy; Ammannito, Eleonora

doi:10.1016/j.pss.2024.105893

Planetary and Space Science

2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2024.105893

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Preliminary spectroscopic investigation of a potential Mars analog site: Lake Bagno dell’Acqua, Pantelleria, Italy

Enrico Bruschini,

Marco Ferrari,

Cristina Mazzoni

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Morphological, hydrogeochemical and sedimentological analysis of hypersaline Sambhar Lake, India: An analog to understand evaporitic paleolake basins on Mars

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Roy

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Morphological, hydrogeochemical and sedimentological analysis of hypersaline Sambhar Lake, India: An analog to understand evaporitic paleolake basins on Mars

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Roy

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Microbial abundance across a salinity and mineralogical transect in the Ntwetwe Pan of Botswana: A terrestrial analogue for playa deposits on Mars

Franchi,

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Experimental vs. Natural Mineral Precipitation in Modern Microbialites: The Case Study of the Alkaline Bagno Dell’acqua Lake (Pantelleria Island, Italy)

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Perinelli

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Microbial activity has been documented in various lacustrine environments, suggesting its fundamental role in mineral precipitation and, therefore, in the formation of organo-deposits such as microbialites. Many studies are currently focused on documenting how the association of microbes and extracellular polymeric substances (EPSs) may influence the authigenesis of Mg-rich clay minerals and the subsequent carbonate precipitation in growing microbialites in lacustrine environments. In this study, we investigate the present-day microbialites of the alkaline Bagno dell’Acqua lake (Pantelleria Island, Italy) using X-ray diffraction (XRD) scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS). Our results reveal the intimate association of Mg-smectite/carbonate minerals with the EPS and microbes, and, for the first time, we selected microbes belonging to phylum Firmicutes (Bacillus sp.), from natural microbialites, to carry out laboratory experiments that testify their direct role in the precipitation of clay and carbonate minerals.

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Preliminary spectroscopic investigation of a potential Mars analog site: Lake Bagno dell’Acqua, Pantelleria, Italy

Cited by 3 publications

References 101 publications

Morphological, hydrogeochemical and sedimentological analysis of hypersaline Sambhar Lake, India: An analog to understand evaporitic paleolake basins on Mars

Morphological, hydrogeochemical and sedimentological analysis of hypersaline Sambhar Lake, India: An analog to understand evaporitic paleolake basins on Mars

Microbial abundance across a salinity and mineralogical transect in the Ntwetwe Pan of Botswana: A terrestrial analogue for playa deposits on Mars

Experimental vs. Natural Mineral Precipitation in Modern Microbialites: The Case Study of the Alkaline Bagno Dell’acqua Lake (Pantelleria Island, Italy)

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