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Mars Analog Rio Tinto Experiment (MARTE): An Experimental Demonstration of Key Technologies for Searching for Life on MarsThe discovery of near surface ground ice by the Mars Odyssey mission and the abundant evidence for recent Gulley features observed by the Mars Global Surveyor mission support longstanding theoretical arguments for subsurface liquid water on Mars. Thus, implementing the Mars program goal to search for life points to drilling on Mars to reach liquid water, collecting samples and analyzing them with instrumentation to detect in situ organisms and biomarker compounds. Searching for life in the subsurface of Mars will require drilling, sample extraction and handling, and new technologies to find and identify biomarker compounds and search for living organisms.
Document ID
20050156217
Acquisition Source
Ames Research Center
Document Type
Preprint (Draft being sent to journal)
Authors
Stoker, Carol
(NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA, United States)
Date Acquired
August 23, 2013
Publication Date
January 1, 2004
Subject Category
Lunar And Planetary Science And Exploration
Meeting Information
Meeting: Mars and Astrobiology Science and Technology Manufacturing
Location: Washington, DC
Country: United States
Start Date: December 8, 2004
End Date: December 9, 2004
Funding Number(s)
PROJECT: RTOP 21-344-51-1S-
Distribution Limits
Public
Copyright
Work of the US Gov. Public Use Permitted.

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