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

• Published in: Astrobiology
• Main Authors: Vera, J.-P. de, Alawi, M., Backhaus, T., Baque, M., Billi, D., Böttger, U., Berger, T., Bohmeier, M., Cockell, C., Demets, R., Torre Noetzel, R. de la, Edwards, H., Elsaesser, A., Fagliarone, C., Fiedler, A., Foing, B., Foucher, F., Fritz, J., Hanke, F., Herzog, T., Horneck, G., Hübers, H.-W., Huwe, B., Joshi, J., Kozyrovska, N., Kruchten, M., Lasch, P., Lee, N., Leuko, S., Leya, T., Lorek, A., Martinez-Frias, J., Meessen, J., Moritz, S., Moeller, R., Olsson-Francis, K., Onofri, S., Ott, S., Pacelli, C., Podolich, O., Rabbow, E., Reitz, G., Rettberg, P., Reva, O., Rothschild, L., Garcia Sancho, L., 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: 2019
• Subjects: 610; 570; 620; Zvezda; permafrost
• Online Access: https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/258387; https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2018.1897

S.145-157 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...