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, Baqué, M, Billi D, Böttger, U, Berger, T, Bohmeier, M, Cockell, C, Demets, R, De La Torre Noetzel, R, 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, Martínez-Frías, 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
• Other Authors: De Vera, J, Baqué, M, Billi, D, Böttger, U, Hübers, H, Martínez-Frías, J
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Settore BIO/01 - BOTANICA GENERALE; Zvezda; permafrost
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2108/210876; https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2018.1897

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...