The Biological Oxidant and Life Detection (BOLD) Mission: An outline for a new mission to Mars

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6694, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Schulze Makuch, Dirk ^a   Houtkooper, Joop M ^b   Knoblauch, Michael ^a   Furfaro, Roberto ^c   Fink, Wolfgang ^d   Fairén, Alberto G ^e   Vali, Hojatollah ^f   Head, James N ^g   Lim, Darlene S S ^e   Dohm, James ^c   Irwin, Louis N ^h   Daly, Mike ⁱ   Andersen, Dale ^j  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g RAYTHEON COMPANY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

ⁱ MDA Consulting Limited Canada   (Canada)

^j Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe   (United States)

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Author keywords

BOLD; ESA ExoMars; ESA Mars express; Life detection; Mars; Mars science laboratory; Microbial life; Mission; Oxidant; Phoenix; Viking; Water

Indexed keywords

LIFE DETECTION; MICROBIAL LIFE; VIKING MISSION;

HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; ICE; NASA; OXIDANTS; WATER;

PLANETS;

EID: 42149189535     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.732155     Document Type: Conference Paper

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