Habitability on Early Mars and the Search for Biosignatures with the ExoMars Rover

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作者
Vago, Jorge L. [1 ]
Westall, Frances [2 ]
Coates, Andrew J. [3 ]
Jaumann, Ralf [4 ]
Korablev, Oleg [5 ]
Ciarletti, Valerie [6 ]
Mitrofanov, Igor [5 ]
Josset, Jean-Luc [7 ]
De Sanctis, Maria Cristina [8 ]
Bibring, Jean-Pierre [9 ]
Rull, Fernando [10 ]
Goesmann, Fred [11 ]
Steininger, Harald [11 ]
Goetz, Walter [11 ]
Brinckerhoff, William [12 ]
Szopa, Cyril [6 ]
Raulin, Francois [13 ]
Westall, Frances [2 ]
Edwards, Howell G. M. [14 ]
Whyte, Lyle G. [15 ]
Fairen, Alberto G. [16 ]
Bibring, Jean-Pierre [9 ]
Bridges, John [17 ]
Hauber, Ernst [4 ]
Ori, Gian Gabriele [18 ]
Werner, Stephanie [19 ]
Loizeau, Damien [20 ]
Kuzmin, Ruslan O. [21 ]
Williams, Rebecca M. E. [22 ]
Flahaut, Jessica [23 ]
Forget, Francois [24 ]
Vago, Jorge L. [1 ]
Rodionov, Daniel [5 ]
Korablev, Oleg [5 ]
Svedhem, Hakan [1 ]
Sefton-Nash, Elliot [1 ]
Kminek, Gerhard [1 ]
Lorenzoni, Leila [1 ]
Joudrier, Luc [1 ]
Mikhailov, Viktor [25 ]
Zashchirinskiy, Alexander [26 ]
Alexashkin, Sergei [26 ]
Calantropio, Fabio [27 ]
Merlo, Andrea [27 ]
Poulakis, Pantelis [1 ]
Witasse, Olivier [1 ]
Bayle, Olivier [1 ]
Bayon, Silvia [1 ]
Meierhenrich, Uwe [28 ]
Carter, John [9 ]
机构
[1] Estec, ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands
[2] CNRS, OSUC, Ctr Biophys Mol, Orleans, France
[3] UCL, MSSL, London, England
[4] DLR Inst Planetenforsch, Berlin, Germany
[5] Russian Acad Sci, Space Res Inst, IKI, Moscow, Russia
[6] UPMC Univ Paris 06, Univ Paris Saclay, CNRS, LATMOS,IPSL,UVSQ, Guyancourt, France
[7] Space Explorat Inst, SPACE X, Neuchatel, Switzerland
[8] INAF, Ist Astrofis & Planetol Spaziali, Rome, Italy
[9] IAS, Orsay, France
[10] Univ Valladolid, CSIC, Unidad Asociada UVA, Valladolid, Spain
[11] Max Planck Inst Sonnensyst Forsch MPS, Gottingen, Germany
[12] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD USA
[13] Univ Paris Est Creteil, LISA, Paris, France
[14] Univ Bradford, Bradford, W Yorkshire, England
[15] McGill Univ, Ste Anne De Bellevue, PQ, Canada
[16] Ctr Astrobiol CAB, Madrid, Spain
[17] Univ Leicester, Space Res Ctr, Leicester, Leics, England
[18] Int Res Sch Planetary Phys, Pescara, Italy
[19] Univ Oslo, Ctr Earth Evolut & Dynam, Oslo, Norway
[20] Univ Lyon 1, Ens Lyon, CNRS, Villeurbanne, France
[21] Russian Acad Sci, Vernadsky Inst, Moscow, Russia
[22] Planetary Sci Inst, Waunakee, WI USA
[23] IRAP, Toulouse, France
[24] Univ Paris 06, Inst Pierre Simon Laplace, LMD, Paris, France
[25] TsNIIMash, Korolev, Russia
[26] NPO S Lavochkin, Chimki, Russia
[27] Thales Alenia Space, Turin, Italy
[28] Univ Nice Sophia Antipolis, Inst Chim Nice, Nice, France
[29] Univ Granada, CSIC, Granada, Spain
[30] CNES, Toulouse, France
关键词
Biosignatures; ExoMars; Landing sites; Mars rover; Search for life; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC-HYDROCARBONS; BARBERTON GREENSTONE-BELT; EARLY EARTH; MORPHOLOGICAL BIOSIGNATURES; ORGANIC-MOLECULES; LANDING SITE; GALE CRATER; SEDIMENTARY STRUCTURES; TERRESTRIAL PLANETS; PREBIOTIC CHEMISTRY;
D O I
10.1089/ast.2016.1533
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The second ExoMars mission will be launched in 2020 to target an ancient location interpreted to have strong potential for past habitability and for preserving physical and chemical biosignatures (as well as abiotic/prebiotic organics). The mission will deliver a lander with instruments for atmospheric and geophysical investigations and a rover tasked with searching for signs of extinct life. The ExoMars rover will be equipped with a drill to collect material from outcrops and at depth down to 2 m. This subsurface sampling capability will provide the best chance yet to gain access to chemical biosignatures. Using the powerful Pasteur payload instruments, the ExoMars science team will conduct a holistic search for traces of life and seek corroborating geological context information.
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