10 January 2021
Astrobiology. Current, Evolving and Emerging Perspectives
... and emerging topics. This includes an overview of astrobiology, biosignatures and planetary protection, as well as chapters on microbial life in impact craters, low-pressure environments and terrestrial analogue sites from the ocean depths to the...
July 2014
Is there a space race or are India and China just coming of age?
..., MOM carries different instruments, include a sensor to detect methane, a chemical that could mark the presence of microbial life. Aside from science, a major factor in the Asian space race is prestige, as rapidly developing countries there...
May 2021
In-situ propellant design for Mars ascent vehicles
.... However, NASA’s Mars Express rover has detected methane leakage among the rocks, which could be an indication of microbial life. Moreover, there is frozen carbon dioxide, especially in the north and south polar regions, and investigations made...
04 May 2016
Martian minerals point to subglacial volcanoes
... the volcano and moisture from the melting ice sheets could have provided favourable conditions for microbial life to emerge. Volcanoes are not unusual on Mars and indeed the Solar Systems largest known volcano, Olympus...
09 July 2018
Plans for a future Mars rover to return soil samples to Earth
... to Earth by a separate spacecraft. The Mars 2020 rover is on the search for, amongst other things, signs of past microbial life on the martian surface and is set for launch in July/August 2020. Airbus is already in the process of building...
03 August 2018
Space activity at Farnborough FIA 2018
... a year on the Martian surface drilling two metres into the soil, to seek out possible past or current microbial life in the subsurface soil. The UK, which is building the rover at the Airbus factory in Stevenage, won the naming...
