A Mission Simulating the Search for Life on Mars with Automated Drilling, Sample Handling, and Life Detection Instruments Performed in the Hyperarid Core of the Atacama Desert, Chile

Investigating the Oxia Planum subsurface with the ExoMars rover and drill

(2023) Francesca Altieri et al.   ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH

Century scale rainfall in the absolute Atacama Desert: Landscape response and implications for past and future rainfall

(2021) Marco Pfeiffer et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Simulating Mars Drilling Mission for Searching for Life: Ground-Truthing Lipids and Other Complex Microbial Biomarkers in the Iron-Sulfur Rich Río Tinto Analog

(2020) Laura Sánchez-García et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

What Is Life—and When Do We Search for It on Other Worlds

(2020) Christopher P. McKay   ASTROBIOLOGY

Fully Automated Microchip Electrophoresis Analyzer for Potential Life Detection Missions

(2020) Maria F. Mora et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Subsurface Microbial Habitats in an Extreme Desert Mars-Analog Environment

(2019) Kimberley A. Warren-Rhodes et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

A Subcritical Water Extractor Prototype for Potential Astrobiology Spaceflight Missions

(2019) F. Kehl et al.   Earth and Space Science

Uniaxial Compressive Strengths of Rocks Drilled at Gale Crater, Mars

(2018) G. H. Peters et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

Unprecedented rains decimate surface microbial communities in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert

(2018) A. Azua-Bustos et al.   Scientific Reports

A look back: The drilling campaign of the Curiosity rover during the Mars Science Laboratory's Prime Mission

(2018) William Abbey et al.   ICARUS

Xeropreservation of functionalized lipid biomarkers in hyperarid soils in the Atacama Desert

(2017) Mary Beth Wilhelm et al.   ORGANIC GEOCHEMISTRY

Detection of Perchlorate and the Soluble Chemistry of Martian Soil at the Phoenix Lander Site

(2017) M. H. Hecht et al.   SCIENCE

Evaluating the life expectancy of a desert pavement

(2016) Yeong Bae Seong et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Implementation of microchip electrophoresis instrumentation for future spaceflight missions

(2015) Peter A. Willis et al.   ANALYTICAL AND BIOANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Landscape modification in response to repeated onset of hyperarid paleoclimate states since 14 Ma, Atacama Desert, Chile

(2014) T. E. Jordan et al.   GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA BULLETIN

The Icebreaker Life Mission to Mars: A Search for Biomolecular Evidence for Life

(2013) Christopher P. McKay et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

Service Oriented Robotic Architecture for Space Robotics: Design, Testing, and Lessons Learned

(2013) Lorenzo Flückiger et al.   Journal of Field Robotics

Robotics and Automation for “Icebreaker”

(2013) B. J. Glass et al.   Journal of Field Robotics

Colonization patterns of soil microbial communities in the Atacama Desert

(2013) Alexander Crits-Christoph et al.   Microbiome

Life at the dry edge: Microorganisms of the Atacama Desert

(2012) Armando Azua-Bustos et al.   FEBS LETTERS

Degradation of the organic molecules in the shallow subsurface of Mars due to irradiation by cosmic rays

(2012) A. A. Pavlov et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

UV degradation of accreted organics on Mars: IDP longevity, surface reservoir of organics, and relevance to the detection of methane in the atmosphere

(2012) John E. Moores et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

SOLID3: A Multiplex Antibody Microarray-Based Optical Sensor Instrument for In Situ Life Detection in Planetary Exploration

(2011) Víctor Parro et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

A Microbial Oasis in the Hypersaline Atacama Subsurface Discovered by a Life Detector Chip: Implications for the Search for Life on Mars

(2011) Victor Parro et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The oxidation-reduction potential of aqueous soil solutions at the Mars Phoenix landing site

(2011) Richard C. Quinn et al.   GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS

The MECA Wet Chemistry Laboratory on the 2007 Phoenix Mars Scout Lander

(2009) Samuel P. Kounaves et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Results from the Mars Phoenix Lander Robotic Arm experiment

(2009) R. E. Arvidson et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

DAME: Planetary-Prototype Drilling Automation

(2008) B. Glass et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

The 2005 MARTE Robotic Drilling Experiment in Río Tinto, Spain: Objectives, Approach, and Results of a Simulated Mission to Search for Life in the Martian Subsurface

(2008) Carol R. Stoker et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

SOLID2: An Antibody Array-Based Life-Detector Instrument in a Mars Drilling Simulation Experiment (MARTE)

(2008) Víctor Parro et al.   ASTROBIOLOGY

On the in situ aqueous alteration of soils on Mars

(2008) Ronald Amundson et al.   GEOCHIMICA ET COSMOCHIMICA ACTA

Facilitation of endolithic microbial survival in the hyperarid core of the Atacama Desert by mineral deliquescence

(2008) Alfonso F. Davila et al.   JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH

Polygonal terrains on Mars: A contribution to their geometric and topological characterization

(2008) Pedro Pina et al.   PLANETARY AND SPACE SCIENCE