An approach to the detection of microbe life in planetary environments through charge-coupled devices.
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.
Nussinov
M D
MD
Moscow, USSR.
Lysenko
S V
SV
Kozlovskii MYu
Pogodin YuS
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
D003470:Culture Media