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, Baqué, 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, Frias, Jesus Martínez, 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, Verseux, Cyprien, Wadsworth, Jennifer, Wagner, Dirk, Westall, Frances, Wolter, David, Zucconi, Laura
• Other Authors: German Aerospace Center (DLR), German Research Centre for Geosciences - Helmholtz-Centre Potsdam (GFZ), Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf = Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata Roma, Italia = University of Rome Tor Vergata Rome, Italy = Université de Rome Tor Vergata Rome, Italie, SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy Edinburgh, The University of Edinburgh, European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), University of Bradford, Freie Universität Berlin, University of Potsdam = Universität Potsdam, Centre de biophysique moléculaire (CBM), Université d'Orléans (UO)-Université de Tours (UT)-Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM)-Institut de Chimie - CNRS Chimie (INC-CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Technische Hochschule Wildau (TH Wildau), Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil (HSR), Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics of NAS of Ukraine, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine = Національна академія наук України = Académie nationale des sciences d'Ukraine (NASU / НАН України), Robert Koch Institute Berlin (RKI), Umeå University = Umeå Universitet, Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology (Fraunhofer IZI), Fraunhofer (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft), Instituto de Geociencias Madrid (IGEO), Universidad Complutense de Madrid = Complutense University of Madrid Madrid (UCM)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas España = Spanish National Research Council Spain (CSIC), The Open University Milton Keynes (OU), Università degli studi della Tuscia = Tuscia University Viterbo (UNITUS), University of Pretoria South Africa, NASA Ames Research Center (ARC), Universidad Complutense de Madrid = Complutense University of Madrid Madrid (UCM), Technical University of Berlin / Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), Italian National Antarctic Museum (MNA), Alfred Wegener Institute Potsdam, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung = Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research = Institut Alfred-Wegener pour la recherche polaire et marine (AWI), Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft = Helmholtz Association-Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft = Helmholtz Association
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: CCSD 2019
• Subjects: BIOMEX; EXPOSE-R2; Extremophiles; Habitability; Limits of life; Mars; [SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]; Zvezda; permafrost
• Online Access: https://hal.science/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...