| Extraterrestrial samples Meteorites (Orgueil, Tagish Lake, Eifel, Epinal, Bereba, Dar Al Gani 684, Tatahouine, Eagle, Vaca Muerta, etc…) Interplanetary Dust Particles (IDPs) Cometary dust particles (NASA/Stardust space mission) |
| Analogs (interstellar medium and solar system) Ices (H2O, HDO, CO, CO2, CH4, C2H2, C4H10, C6H6, CH3OH, CH3DOH, OCS, SO2, H2S, N2, N2O, NO2, NH3, CH3CN, NH2CHO, etc...) Silicates (quartz, olivine, forsterite, pyroxene, serpentine, Etnean soils, etc…) Carbonaceous materials (amorphous carbon, graphite, diamond, fullerene, asphaltite, pentacene, etc…) |
| Polymers Polystyrene Polyethylene Poly phenylacetylene (PPA) Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) |
| Amino acids Glycine |
| Bacteria Deinococcus radiodurans |
| Others Silicon carbide Crystalline silicon |
