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

• Published in: Astrobiology
• Main Authors: de Vera, J. P., Alawi, M., Backhaus, T., Baque, M., Billi, D., Böttger, U., Berger, T., Bohmeier, M, Cockell, C., Demets, R., de la Torre Noetzel, R., Edwards, H.G.M., Elsaesser, A., Fagliarone, C., Fiedler, A., Foing, B., Foucher, F., Fritz, J., Hanke, F., Herzog, T.H., Horneck, G., Hübers, Heinz-Wilhelm, Huwe, Björn, Joshi, J., Kozyrovska, N., Kruchten, M., Lasch, P., Lee, N., Leuko, Stefan, Leya, T., Lorek, Andreas, Martinez-Frias, J., Meessen, J., Moritz, S., Moeller, R., Olsson-Francis, K., Onofri, S., Ott, S., Pacelli, C., Podolich, O., Rabbow, Elke, Reitz, G, Rettberg, Petra, Reva, O., Rothschild, L., Sancho, L. G., Schulze-Makuch, D., Selbmann, L., Serrano, P., Szewzyk, U., Verseux, C., Wadsworth, J., Wagner, D., Westall, F., Wolter, D., Zucconi, L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Mary Ann Liebert Inc. 2019
• Subjects: Leitungsbereich PF; Weltrauminstrumente; Strahlenbiologie; Zvezda; permafrost
• Online Access: https://elib.dlr.de/127960/; https://elib.dlr.de/127960/1/de%20Vera%20et%20al.%20BIOMEX%20Introast.2018.pdf; https://www.liebertpub.com/toc/ast/19/2

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 stabi...