Life on Mars, can we detect it?

Searching for evidence of life on Mars is a major impetus for exploration. A new study published in Nature Communications finds that current Mars mission instruments lack the essential sensitivity to identify life traces in Chilean desert samples that strongly resemble the martian area currently und...

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Published in:Nature communications 2023-02, Vol.14 (1), p.807-2, Article 807
Main Author: Stoker, Carol R.
Format: Article
Language:English
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Astrobiology
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Earth
Experiments
Extraterrestrial life
Humanities and Social Sciences
Laboratories
Mars
Mars missions
Mars rovers
Morphology
multidisciplinary
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Sediments
Solvents
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Summary:Searching for evidence of life on Mars is a major impetus for exploration. A new study published in Nature Communications finds that current Mars mission instruments lack the essential sensitivity to identify life traces in Chilean desert samples that strongly resemble the martian area currently under study by NASA’s Perseverance rover.
ISSN:2041-1723
2041-1723
DOI:10.1038/s41467-023-36176-x