Life on Mars, can we detect it?

Carol R. Stoker ()
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Carol R. Stoker: NASA Ames Research Center, Space Science Division, MS 245-3, Moffett Field

Nature Communications, 2023, vol. 14, issue 1, 1-2

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2023
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