On the Search for Extant Life on Mars |
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Authors: | Harold P Klein |
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Institution: | SETI Institute, 2035 Landings Drive, Mountain View, California, 94043, f1 |
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Abstract: | Proposals for continuing the search for extant life on Mars are primarily predicated on the assumption that specialized environmental niches that could support a biota may exist on the planet. Before attempting any critical tests for extant organisms, eitherin situor on returned samples, it is imperative to determine whether any such sites actually exist. If, through remote sensing and landed instrumentation, sites of potential biological interest are discovered and characterized, biological tests can then more effectively be planned to elicit the presence of organisms that are adapted to living in these particular environments. |
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