June 2020
Titan’s evolving atmosphere
... how the rich soup of chemicals on Titan (that form a path to prebiotic molecules) differ from known abiotic organic material in meteorites - knowledge that will help contribute to our understanding of the origin of life in the solar system. About...
January 2019
Materials make the space mission
... vacuum. The effects can be dramatic: ceramic/oxide layers and polymeric materials can undergo desorption of water and outgassing of organic materials or organic residues entrapped in inorganic layers. Water desorption can have a weakening impact...
February 2022
Extremophiles as a blueprint for universal life
... was very similar to the spectrum of dehydrated bacteria generated on Earth, which could suggest an abundance of organic material, if not actual organisms floating in the vast void of space. Indeed today, sending a ‘genesis ark’ of extremophiles...
02 November 2016
How life on Mars might be 'sniffed out' by BILI
...able to detect in real-time, small levels of complex organic materials from a distance of several hundred meters. Therefore, because ... spectrometers that can only measure a small amount of material at once," added Blagojevic. "BILI's measurements do ...
February 2019
Simulating lunar and martian regolith in the laboratory
... into various types of sediment, ash, salts and, most importantly, soil. Terrestrial regolith generally contains organic material due to the abundant and diverse array of life on Earth. In contrast, lunar regolith contains no biologically-derived...
October 2018
Sustainable ways of living on the Moon and Mars
...balances could be achieved, although the introduction of organic material and imported fertiliser would, of course, greatly ...is generally accepted that the use and exploitation of ISRU materials for Lunar Villages and Mars bases is unlikely to be ...
