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Oxia Planum: The Landing Site for the ExoMars "Rosalind Franklin" Rover Mission: Geological Context and Prelanding Interpretation

Pan, Lu; Quantin-Nataf, Cathy; Fawdon, Peter +18 more

The European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos ExoMars mission will launch the "Rosalind Franklin" rover in 2022 for a landing on Mars in <uri xlink:href="http://2023.The">2023.The</uri> goals of the mission are to search for signs of past and present life on Mars, investigate the water/geochemical environment as a function of depth in …

Morphological and Spectral Diversity of the Clay-Bearing Unit at the ExoMars Landing Site Oxia Planum

Pan, Lu; Quantin-Nataf, Cathy; Cremonese, Gabriele +10 more

The European Space Agency and Roscosmos' ExoMars rover mission, which is planned to land in the Oxia Planum region, will be dedicated to exobiology studies at the surface and subsurface of Mars. Oxia Planum is a clay-bearing site that has preserved evidence of long-term interaction with water during the Noachian era. Fe/Mg-rich phyllosilicates hav…

Interrelationships in the Gypsum–Syngenite–Görgeyite System and Their Possible Formation on Mars

Arana, Gorka; Madariaga, Juan Manuel; García-Florentino, Cristina +7 more

Constraints for Use of Ultraviolet Spectropolarimetry to Detect Chiral Amino Acids from Comets

Gómez de Castro, Ana I.; De Isidro-Gómez, Ana I.

Life is pervasive on planet Earth, but whether life is ubiquitous in the Galaxy and sustainable over timescales comparable to stellar evolution is unknown. Evidence suggests that life first appeared on Earth more than 3.77 Gyr ago, during a period of heavy meteoric bombardment. Amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, have been demonstrated t…