title: An approach to the detection of microbe life in planetary environments through charge-coupled devices.
abstract: The use of charge-coupled devices is suggested as a means for detecting growth of micro-organism colonies. The accuracy of the method is determined by channel width and the sensitivity by the signal/noise ratio. The method was tested on a dense nutrient medium, which is to be considered more suitable to micro-organisms of the dry Martian soil than the water solution of nutrients employed in the Viking's strategy.
authors.affiliation: Moscow, USSR.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Nussinov
authors.forename: S V
authors.initials: SV
authors.lastname: Lysenko
authors.lastname: Kozlovskii MYu
authors.lastname: Pogodin YuS
mesh_terms: D003470:Culture Media; D004783:Environmental Microbiology; D004867:Equipment Design; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D018559:Exobiology / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods; D005118:Extraterrestrial Environment; D018535:Mars; D004718:Saccharomycetales / Q000254:growth & development; D012666:Semiconductors
chemical_list: D003470:Culture Media