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Habitability on Early Mars and the Search for Biosignatures with the ExoMars Rover

  • Jorge L. Vago
  • , Frances Westall
  • , Andrew J. Coates
  • , Ralf Jaumann
  • , Oleg Korablev
  • , Valérie Ciarletti
  • , Igor Mitrofanov
  • , Jean Luc Josset
  • , Maria Cristina De Sanctis
  • , Jean Pierre Bibring
  • , Fernando Rull
  • , Fred Goesmann
  • , Harald Steininger
  • , Walter Goetz
  • , William Brinckerhoff
  • , Cyril Szopa
  • , François Raulin
  • , Howell G.M. Edwards
  • , Lyle G. Whyte
  • , Alberto G. Fairén
  • John Bridges, Ernst Hauber, Gian Gabriele Ori, Stephanie Werner, Damien Loizeau, Ruslan O. Kuzmin, Rebecca M.E. Williams, Jessica Flahaut, François Forget, Daniel Rodionov, Håkan Svedhem, Elliot Sefton-Nash, Gerhard Kminek, Leila Lorenzoni, Luc Joudrier, Viktor Mikhailov, Alexander Zashchirinskiy, Sergei Alexashkin, Fabio Calantropio, Andrea Merlo, Pantelis Poulakis, Olivier Witasse, Olivier Bayle, Silvia Bayón, Uwe Meierhenrich, John Carter, Juan Manuel García-Ruiz, Pietro Baglioni, Albert Haldemann, Andrew J. Ball, André Debus, Robert Lindner, Frédéric Haessig, David Monteiro, Roland Trautner, Christoph Voland, Pierre Rebeyre, Duncan Goulty, Frédéric Didot, Stephen Durrant, Eric Zekri, Detlef Koschny, Andrea Toni, Gianfranco Visentin, Martin Zwick, Michel Van Winnendael, Martín Azkarate, Christophe Carreau
  • ESTEC - European Space Research and Technology Centre
  • Centre de Biophysique moléculaire
  • UCL Mullard Space Science Laboratory
  • DLR
  • Space Research Institute (IKI)
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • Space-X
  • Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (IAPS)
  • Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale
  • Universidad de Valladolid
  • Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung
  • NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • Lab. Interuniversitaire Systemes
  • University of Bradford
  • McGill University, Macdonald Campus
  • ESAC campus
  • University of Leicester
  • International Research School of Planetary Sciences
  • University of Oslo
  • IGFL, Université de Lyon, Université Lyon 1
  • Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of Russian Academу of Sciences
  • Planetary Science Institute
  • IRAP/CNRS
  • Sorbonne Université
  • TsNIIMash
  • NPO S. Lavochkin
  • Thales-Alenia Space Italy
  • Université Côte D’Azur
  • University of Granada
  • Centre National d'études Spatiales

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Résumé

The second ExoMars mission will be launched in 2020 to target an ancient location interpreted to have strong potential for past habitability and for preserving physical and chemical biosignatures (as well as abiotic/prebiotic organics). The mission will deliver a lander with instruments for atmospheric and geophysical investigations and a rover tasked with searching for signs of extinct life. The ExoMars rover will be equipped with a drill to collect material from outcrops and at depth down to 2 m. This subsurface sampling capability will provide the best chance yet to gain access to chemical biosignatures. Using the powerful Pasteur payload instruments, the ExoMars science team will conduct a holistic search for traces of life and seek corroborating geological context information. Key Words: Biosignatures-ExoMars-Landing sites-Mars rover-Search for life. Astrobiology 17, 471-510.

langue originaleAnglais
Pages (de - à)471-510
Nombre de pages40
journalAstrobiology
Volume17
Numéro de publication6-7
Les DOIs
étatPublié - 1 juin 2017
Modification externeOui

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