Informing Mars Sample Selection Strategies: Identifying Fossil Biosignatures and Assessing Their Preservation Potential

Informing Mars Sample Selection Strategies: Identifying Fossil Biosignatures and Assessing Their Preservation Potential

abstract: The search for life on Mars is a major NASA priority. A Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission, Mars 2020, will be NASA's next step towards this goal, carrying an instrument suite that can identify samples containing potential biosignatures. Those samples will be later returned to Earth fo...

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Other Authors: Shkolyar, Svetlana (Author)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2016
Subjects:
Geology
Engineering
Geobiology
Astrobiology
Biosignature Preservation Potential
Fluorescence
in situ rover-based instrumentation
Mars Sample Return
Raman spectroscopy
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.40728

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