Addressing Strategic Knowledge Gaps in the Search for Biosignatures on Mars
Whitepaper #223 submitted to the Planetary Science and Astrobiology Decadal Survey 2023-2032. Topics: field studies; habitability and water; Mars
by Nathalie Cabrol, Janice Bishop, Sherry L. Cady, Cecilia Demergasso, Nancy Hinman, Michael Hoffman, Isik Kanik, Jeffrey Moersch, Nora Noffke, Victor Parro, Cynthia Phillips, Michael Phillips, Laura Sánchez Garcia, Pablo Sobron, David Summers, Kimberley Warren-Rhodes, David Wettergreen, Miguel Angel Férnandez-Martínez, and Virginia Gulick
Published onMar 18, 2021
Addressing Strategic Knowledge Gaps in the Search for Biosignatures on Mars
To advance our understanding of the distribution of life on Mars, the search must shift from habitable environments to evidence for coevolution. This new context will facilitate the intellectual and technological advancements required to search for extinct and extant inhabited environments more efficiently and holistically.
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