Limits of Life and the Habitability of Mars: The ESA Space Experiment BIOMEX on the ISS

• Published in: Astrobiology
• Main Authors: de Vera, Jean-Pierre, Alawi, Mashal, Backhaus, Theresa, Baque, Mickael, Billi, Daniela, Böttger, Ute, Berger, Thomas, Bohmeier, Maria, Cockell, Charles, Demets, René, de la Torre Noetzel, Rosa, Edwards, Howell, Elsaesser, Andreas, Fagliarone, Claudia, Fiedler, Annelie, Foing, Bernard, Foucher, Frédéric, Fritz, Jörg, Hanke, Franziska, Herzog, Thomas, Horneck, Gerda, Hübers, Heinz-Wilhelm, Huwe, Björn, Joshi, Jasmin, Kozyrovska, Natalia, Kruchten, Martha, Lasch, Peter, Lee, Natuschka, Leuko, Stefan, Leya, Thomas, Lorek, Andreas, Martinez-Frias, Jesus, Meessen, Joachim, Moritz, Sophie, Moeller, Ralf, Olsson-Francis, Karen, Onofri, Silvano, Ott, Sieglinde, Pacelli, Claudia, Podolich, Olga, Rabbow, Elke, Reitz, Günther, Rettberg, Petra, Reva, Oleg, Rothschild, Lynn, Sancho, Leo Garcia, Schulze-Makuch, Dirk, Selbmann, Laura, Serrano, Paloma, Szewzyk, Ulrich
• Other Authors: DLR Institut für Planetenforschung, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Berlin (DLR), Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron Pôle Chimie Balard (IBMM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Montpellier (ENSCM), Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata Roma, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt Köln (DLR), SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy Edinburgh, University of Edinburgh, European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), European Space Agency (ESA), Earth Observation, Remote Sensing and Atmosphere Department, INTA, Leiden Institute of Chemistry, Universiteit Leiden Leiden, Centre de biophysique moléculaire (CBM), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC), Saalbau Weltraum Projekt, DLR Institut für Luft- und Raumfahrtmedizin, Universität Potsdam, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU), Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering Sulzbach (Fraunhofer IBMT), Fraunhofer (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft), Centro de Astrobiologia Madrid (CAB), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas Madrid (CSIC)-Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf = Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, The Open University Milton Keynes (OU), Università degli studi della Tuscia Viterbo, NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), Joint Center for Structural Genomics (JCSG), Stanford University, Technische Universität Berlin (TU)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2019
• Subjects: BIOMEX; EXPOSE-R2; Extremophiles; Habitability; Limits of life; Mars; [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Zvezda; permafrost
• Online Access: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02086947; https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2018.1897

International audience BIOMEX (BIOlogy and Mars EXperiment) is an ESA/Roscosmos space exposure experiment housed within the exposure facility EXPOSE-R2 outside the Zvezda module on the International Space Station (ISS). The design of the multiuser facility supports-among others-the BIOMEX investigat...