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Mars Analogues for space exploration – A summary of results

Cockell, C. S. (and the MASE Team) (2017) Mars Analogues for space exploration – A summary of results. EANA 2017, 14.-17. August, 2017, Aarhus, Denmark.

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Astrobiology seeks to understand the limits of life and to determine the physiology of organisms in order to be able to better assess the potential habitability of other worlds and improve our ability to assay them for the presence of life. To successfully achieve this we require representative microorganisms from environments on Earth that in physical and/or chemical conditions approximate to extraterrestrial environments. The most challenging of these environ-ments with respect to the sample collection and follow on isolation and cultivation of microorganisms are anaerobic environments. Here we describe a systematic approach to this challenge and aim to provide a guideline for future field work and sampling campaigns. We selected a number of anaerobic environments based on characteristics that make them analogous to past and present locations on Mars (Icelandic lakes, sulfidic springs, deep hypersaline environ-ments, acidic iron-rich environments and permafrost). We implemented a culturing approach to enrich organisms from these environments under anaerobic conditions using a defined medium that would allow for all organisms to be grown under iden- tical culturing conditions in future physiological comparisons. We then isolated anaerobic microorganisms, carried out a study of their basic physiology and deposited these organisms in the DSMZ (Deutsche Sammlung von Mikroorganismen und Zellkulturen GmbH) culture collection to make them available to astrobiologists and microbiologists. These organisms can them be used for a variety of astrobiology projects. In MASE, the selected organisms are being artifically fossilised and matured and the ensuing biosignatures studied in order to aid the search for in situ biosignatures on Mars and in samples returned from Mars. This project represents the first attempt to implement a coordinated effort from the selection of extraterrestrial analog sites through to the isolation and the characterisation of organisms and their deposition within a culture collection.

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Dokumentart:Konferenzbeitrag (Vortrag)
Titel:Mars Analogues for space exploration – A summary of results
Autoren:
AutorenInstitution oder E-Mail-AdresseAutoren-ORCID-iDORCID Put Code
Cockell, C. S. (and the MASE Team)UK Center for Astrobiology, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, James Clerk Max-well Building, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK, email: c.s.cockell (at) ed.ac.uk.NICHT SPEZIFIZIERTNICHT SPEZIFIZIERT
Datum:2017
Referierte Publikation:Ja
Open Access:Ja
Gold Open Access:Nein
In SCOPUS:Nein
In ISI Web of Science:Nein
Status:veröffentlicht
Stichwörter:MASE (Mars Analogues for Space Exploration)
Veranstaltungstitel:EANA 2017
Veranstaltungsort:Aarhus, Denmark
Veranstaltungsart:internationale Konferenz
Veranstaltungsdatum:14.-17. August, 2017
Veranstalter :European Astrobiology Network Association
HGF - Forschungsbereich:Luftfahrt, Raumfahrt und Verkehr
HGF - Programm:Raumfahrt
HGF - Programmthema:Forschung unter Weltraumbedingungen
DLR - Schwerpunkt:Raumfahrt
DLR - Forschungsgebiet:R FR - Forschung unter Weltraumbedingungen
DLR - Teilgebiet (Projekt, Vorhaben):R - Vorhaben Strahlenbiologie (alt)
Standort: Köln-Porz
Institute & Einrichtungen:Institut für Luft- und Raumfahrtmedizin > Strahlenbiologie
Hinterlegt von: Kopp, Kerstin
Hinterlegt am:28 Sep 2017 11:46
Letzte Änderung:20 Jun 2021 15:49

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