| Organic molecules in the Sheepbed Mudstone, Gale Crater, Mars C Freissinet, DP Glavin, PR Mahaffy, KE Miller, JL Eigenbrode, ... Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets 120 (3), 495-514, 2015 | 496 | 2015 |
| Amino acid photostability on the Martian surface IL Ten Kate, JRC Garry, Z Peeters, R Quinn, B Foing, P Ehrenfreund Meteoritics & Planetary Science 40 (8), 1185-1193, 2005 | 161 | 2005 |
| The potential science and engineering value of samples delivered to Earth by Mars sample return: International MSR Objectives and Samples Team (iMOST) DW Beaty, MM Grady, HY McSween, E Sefton‐Nash, BL Carrier, F Altieri, ... Meteoritics & Planetary Science 54, S3-S152, 2019 | 129 | 2019 |
| Earth as a tool for astrobiology—a European perspective Z Martins, H Cottin, JM Kotler, N Carrasco, CS Cockell, ... Space Science Reviews 209, 43-81, 2017 | 111 | 2017 |
| The effects of Martian near surface conditions on the photochemistry of amino acids IL Ten Kate, JRC Garry, Z Peeters, B Foing, P Ehrenfreund Planetary and Space Science 54 (3), 296-302, 2006 | 101 | 2006 |
| Organics on Mars? IL ten Kate Astrobiology 10 (6), 2010 | 84 | 2010 |
| Astrobiology and the possibility of life on earth and elsewhere… H Cottin, JM Kotler, K Bartik, HJ Cleaves, CS Cockell, JPP De Vera, ... Space Science Reviews 209, 1-42, 2017 | 75 | 2017 |
| Analysis and survival of amino acids in martian regolith analogs JRC Garry, IL ten Kate, Z Martins, P Nørnberg, P Ehrenfreund Meteoritics & Planetary Science 41 (3), 391-405, 2006 | 72 | 2006 |
| UV irradiation of biomarkers adsorbed on minerals under Martian-like conditions: Hints for life detection on Mars T Fornaro, A Boosman, JR Brucato, IL ten Kate, S Siljeström, G Poggiali, ... Icarus 313, 38-60, 2018 | 64 | 2018 |
| Imaging linear and circular polarization features in leaves with complete Mueller matrix polarimetry CHL Patty, DA Luo, F Snik, F Ariese, WJ Buma, IL Ten Kate, ... Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA)-General Subjects 1862 (6), 1350-1363, 2018 | 57 | 2018 |
| A sink for methane on Mars? The answer is blowing in the wind SJ Knak Jensen, J Skibsted, HJ Jakobsen, IL ten Kate, HP Gunnlaugsson, ... Icarus 236, 24-27, 2014 | 57 | 2014 |
| The significance of microbe-mineral-biomarker interactions in the detection of life on Mars and beyond WFM Röling, JW Aerts, CHL Patty, IL Ten Kate, P Ehrenfreund, ... Astrobiology 15 (6), 492-507, 2015 | 49 | 2015 |
| The refractive index of amorphous and crystalline water ice in the UV–vis V Kofman, J He, IL ten Kate, H Linnartz The Astrophysical Journal 875 (2), 131, 2019 | 40 | 2019 |
| Electric discharge in the Martian atmosphere, Paschen curves and implications for future missions HLK Manning, IL Ten Kate, SJ Battel, PR Mahaffy Advances in space research 46 (10), 1334-1340, 2010 | 39 | 2010 |
| A targeted search for point sources of EeV neutrons A Aab, P Abreu, M Aglietta, M Ahlers, EJ Ahn, I Al Samarai, ... The Astrophysical journal letters 789 (2), L34, 2014 | 36 | 2014 |
| Circular spectropolarimetric sensing of vegetation in the field: possibilities for the remote detection of extraterrestrial life CHL Patty, IL Ten Kate, WJ Buma, RJM Van Spanning, G Steinbach, ... Astrobiology 19 (10), 1221-1229, 2019 | 35 | 2019 |
| A cometary origin for Martian atmospheric methane M Fries, A Christou, D Archer, P Conrad, W Cooke, J Eigenbrode, ... Geochemical Perspectives Letters 2 (1), 10-23, 2016 | 30 | 2016 |
| VAPoR–Volatile Analysis by Pyrolysis of Regolith–an instrument for in situ detection of water, noble gases, and organics on the Moon IL Ten Kate, EH Cardiff, JP Dworkin, SH Feng, V Holmes, C Malespin, ... Planetary and Space Science 58 (7-8), 1007-1017, 2010 | 29 | 2010 |
| Delivery of organics to Mars through asteroid and comet impacts K Frantseva, M Mueller, IL ten Kate, F van der Tak AAS/Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting Abstracts 48, 2016 | 28 | 2016 |
| Organic molecules on Mars IL Ten Kate Science 360 (6393), 1068-1069, 2018 | 27 | 2018 |
Pascale EhrenfreundProfessor, Space Policy Institute, George Washington U.Verified email at gwu.edu