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3 -- Approaches and Technologies to Detect Life on Mars
Wednesday, April 16, 2008: Morning
Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Washington State University
Pullman, WA, USA
Wolfgang Fink
California Institute of Technology/Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Pasadena, CA, USA
Description
The Viking mission was the only mission to date that conducted life detection experiments. It revealed ambiguous and still controversial results. New findings and hypotheses urge a re-evaluation of the Viking results and a re-evaluation of the evidence for the possible presence of life on Mars in general. Recent findings of abundant water ice on Mars, the presence of liquid contemporary water on the Martian surface, and the detection of methane in the Martian atmosphere further support this possibility. Current missions to be launched focus on habitability considerations (e.g., NASA Phoenix, NASA Mars Science Laboratory), but shy away from directly testing for life on Mars, with the potential exception of the ESA ExoMars mission. If these currently planned missions collect positive evidence toward habitability and the possible existence of extraterrestrial (microbial) life on Mars, it would be timely to propose a new mission to Mars with a strong life detection component. This session is devoted to new detection methods for life, which could be utilized on such a near-future mission to Mars.
ORAL SESSION
9:45 3-11-O. A Proposal for a New Mission to Mars: The Biological Oxidant and
Life Detection (BOLD) Mission [invited] D. Schulze-Makuch, J.M. Houtkooper,
M. Knoblauch, R. Furfaro, W. Fink, J.N. Head, A.G. Fairén, H. Vali, M. Daly, D. Deamer, H.
Schmidt, A.R. Hawkins, H.J. Sun, D.S.S. Lim, J.Dohm, L.N. Irwin, A. Davila, D.Andersen
10:00 3-07-O. Searching for Life on Mars via Fuzzy Autonomous Systems R. Furfaro,
J. Dohm, W. Fink, J.Kargel, D.Schulze-Makuch, A. Fairén, A. Palmero-Rodriguez,
Victor Baker, Ty Ferre, T. Hare, M. Tarbell, H. Miyamoto, G. Komatsu
10:15 3-04-O. Detecting Life on Mars: Raman Spectra Identifications of Mineral and
Organic Constituents [invited] B. Chen, C. Stoker, N. Cabrol, C.P. McKay
10:30 3-08-O. Detection Methods for Anticipated Hydrogen Peroxide-Water Based
Life on Mars J. Houtkooper, D. Schulze-Makuch
10:45 BREAK
11:00 3-02-O. Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy as a Tool for Characterising
Pigments in the Extracts of Living Organisms and Sediments
S. Bowden, Rab Wilson, J.M. Cooper, J.Parnell
11:15 3-13-O. Detection of Biogenic Molecules by Means of Circularly Polarized Light
Scattering D. Winebrenner, W. Asher, A. Spott
11:30 3-01-O. The Urey Instrument for the ESA ExoMars Mission [invited] J. Bada,
F.J. Grunthaner, R.A. Mathies, R.C. Quinn, A.P. Zent, P. Ehrenfreund, R. Amundson,
D.P. Glavin, O. Botta, L. Barron, D.L. Blaney, B.C. Clark, M. Coleman, B.A. Hofmann,
J-L. Josset, P. Rettberg, S. Ride, F. Robert, M.A. Sephton, A. Yen
11:45 3-12-O. An Integrated Multilayer Lab-on-a-Chip System for Automated Capillary
Electrophoresis Analysis on Mars as Part of the Urey Instrument
P. Willis, A.Smith, F. Greer, V.White, M. Lee, F. Grunthaner, T. Chiesl, R. Mathies
POSTERS
3-03-P. Instruments to Detect the Fluorescence of Organics
N. Bramall, C.R. Stoker, P. B. Price
3-05-P. Enhanced Sensitivity and Compositional Analysis for In Situ Detection of
Bioamines with the Mars Organic Analyzer
T. Chiesl, A. Stockton, J.R. Scherer, R.A. Mathies
3-06-P. Antibody-Microarray Immunopatterm as a Biomarker in Extreme Acidic
Environment P. Cruz, L.A. Rivas, M. García-Villadangos, M.Moreno-Paz, V. Parro
3-09-P. Survival of Microarrays in Space: Preparing for a Life Marker Chip to Mars L. Kerr, A. Steele, J. Maule, Jan Toporski, M. Allen, D. Cullen, M. Sims, L. Richter
3-10-P. Searching for Universal Biomarkers L.A. Rivas, M. García-Villadangos, M. Moreno-Paz,
P. Cruz-Gil, J. Gómez-Elvira, V. Parro