The Mars Robotic Outpost group at JPL has identified sixteen potential momentous discoveries that if found on Mars would alter planning for the future Mars exploration program. This paper details one possible approach to the discovery of and response to the 'momentous discovery'' of extant life on Mars. The approach detailed in this paper, the Mars Extant-Life (MEL) campaign, is a comprehensive and flexible program to find living organisms on Mars by studying Earth-analog habitats of extremophile communities.


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    Title :

    Mars extant-life campaign using an approach based on Earth-analog habitats


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    Conference:

    Space Exploration 2005 ; 2005 ; Albuquerque, NM, United States


    Publication date :

    2005-04-03


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English




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