A portion of the Atacama Desert along Peru’s southern Pacific coast, featuring barren plains, rocky cliffs, vast sand dunes, and fertile river valleys, is pictured from the International Space Station […]
ARADS
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The Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies (ARADS) Project
With advances in commercial space launch capabilities and reduced costs to orbit, humans may arrive on Mars within a decade.
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Away Team Tech: In Situ Real-Time Monitoring for Aseptic Drilling
Lessons Learned from the Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies Contamination Control Strategy and Implementation and Application to the Icebreaker Mars Life Detection Mission
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Life Detection and Microbial Biomarker Profiling with Signs of Life Detector-Life Detector Chip During a Mars Drilling Simulation Campaign in the Hyperarid Core of the Atacama Desert
The low organic matter content in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert, together with abrupt temperature shifts and high ultraviolet radiation at its surface, makes this region one of […]
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NASA is Testing a Drill to Search for Life on Mars – On Its Own
NASA has barely scratched the surface of Mars – literally. While past rovers have dug inches into the rusty soils of the Red Planet, NASA is testing out a drill […]