Life on Mars, can we detect it?
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 36810588.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1038/s41467-023-36176-x and PMC identifier 9944262.
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Abstract
Searching for evidence of life on Mars is a major impetus for exploration. A new study published in <i>Nature Communications</i> finds that current Mars mission instruments lack the essential sensitivity to identify life traces in Chilean desert samples that strongly resemble the martian area currently under study by NASA’s Perseverance rover.