Post by account_disabled on Aug 30, 2023 4:12:21 GMT -5
The day I am writing those words, June 18th, microbes that have spent almost two years in space are coming back from the ISS under the seat of British astronaut Tim Peake. This is the culmination of years of work of the project BIOMEX, of which I have the honor to be part of.
These are exciting times: we’ll finally get to see how space Switzerland Mobile Number List has affected the microbes. We will obtain new insights into what Martian life may have looked like in the past, and what we should be searching for today. Our work will help guide the search for life on Mars, which two upcoming rovers from the American, European and Russian Space Agencies will actively undertake.
Tim Peake after landing. Credit: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2016
Recognizing life
One strategy to look for life on Mars is to look for pieces of microbes with easily recognizable signs of life: pigments, lipids and proteins that emit light when excited with a laser,
DNA that can be amplified by chemical reactions and reacts with sensors, structures that can be recognized by antibodies, and so on. Such features and the signals they emit are called biosignatures.
Finding biosignatures is the main objective of ExoMars, a joint mission of the European and Russian space agencies (ESA and Roscosmos). You may have heard of this mission recently: the first step was completed successfully on March 14th.
These are exciting times: we’ll finally get to see how space Switzerland Mobile Number List has affected the microbes. We will obtain new insights into what Martian life may have looked like in the past, and what we should be searching for today. Our work will help guide the search for life on Mars, which two upcoming rovers from the American, European and Russian Space Agencies will actively undertake.
Tim Peake after landing. Credit: ESA–Stephane Corvaja, 2016
Recognizing life
One strategy to look for life on Mars is to look for pieces of microbes with easily recognizable signs of life: pigments, lipids and proteins that emit light when excited with a laser,
DNA that can be amplified by chemical reactions and reacts with sensors, structures that can be recognized by antibodies, and so on. Such features and the signals they emit are called biosignatures.
Finding biosignatures is the main objective of ExoMars, a joint mission of the European and Russian space agencies (ESA and Roscosmos). You may have heard of this mission recently: the first step was completed successfully on March 14th.