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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 29.
Published in final edited form as: Astrobiology. 2009 Jan-Feb;9(1):104–112. doi: 10.1089/ast.2007.0234

FIG. 5.

FIG. 5

Halite crystals on 11 mm quartz discs, after (A) and before (B) irradiation with 1.5 × 105 kJ/m2 of UV light 200–400 nm and SOL 2000 (this experiment was performed at the DLR Köln, Germany). (C) typical halite crystal on quartz disc with entrapped cells of Hcc. dombrowskii as used in this study.