Limits of life and the habitability of Mars: The ESA space experiment BIOMEX on the ISS

• Main Authors: Vera, Jean-Pierre De, Elsaesser, Andreas, Alawi, Mashal, Backhaus, Theresa, Baqué, Mickael, Billi, Daniela, Böttger, Ute, Berger, Thomas, Bohmeier, Maria, Cockell, Charles [U.V.M.]
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Freie Universität Berlin 2019
• Subjects: EXPOSE-R2; BIOMEX; extremophiles; habitability; limits of life; Mars; 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik530 Physik530 Physik; Zvezda; permafrost
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.17169/refubium-26443; https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/handle/fub188/26686

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 investigations into the stability...