02 November 2016
How life on Mars might be 'sniffed out' by BILI
... use, could be sent to Mars and other targets in the Solar System to ‘sniff’ for life. BILI has been under development ...presently used to remotely monitor the air to detect potentially life-threatening chemicals, toxins, and pathogens and now this ...
April 2024
Terraformal dreaming
... under the ground or inside the rocks. And in that case, Sagan wrote, “if there is life on Mars, I believe we should do nothing with Mars. Mars then belongs to the Martians, even if the Martians are only microbes.” As astrobiologist David Grinspoon...
April 2021
On Mars as it is on Earth - preparing for settlement
... took issue with the analogy of expansion into the American West. In addition to the physical stresses of life on Mars unknown to historic migrations on Earth, he argued that the political freedom of future Martians would be severely constrained...
September 2016
Life in the extremes: confessions of an astrobiologist
...kill them with. Hence, extremophiles present us with more irony: we astrobiologists are trying to find life on Mars, yet perhaps we ourselves brought life to Mars through all of the previous missions that have been on its surface. Even I contaminated...
20 November 2019
Insects on Mars, fungi on Venus. Evidence is presented for life on our neighbouring planets
... webs, and water as elements functioning in a viable, if extreme, ecological setting sufficient to sustain life," he said. "The evidence of life on Mars presented here provides a strong basis for many additional important biological as well as social...
January 2018
When it comes to water Mars may not be the promised land
... not well supported by a careful study of available and secure water resources. In addition, the search for life on Mars does not seem based on a well-grounded preliminary analysis from orbit. The landing sites of the latest ...
