Lunar astrobiology: A review and suggested laboratory equipment

Aaron Gronstal; Charles S. Cockell; Maria Antonietta Perino; Tobias Bittner; Erik Clacey; Olathe Clark; Olivier Ingold; Catarina Alves De Oliveira; Steven Wathiong

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Lunar astrobiology: A review and suggested laboratory equipment

Aaron Gronstal^*, Charles S. Cockell, Maria Antonietta Perino, Tobias Bittner, Erik Clacey, Olathe Clark, Olivier Ingold, Catarina Alves De Oliveira, Steven Wathiong

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In October of 2005, the European Space Agency (ESA) and Alcatel Alenia Spazio released a "call to academia for innovative concepts and technologies for lunar exploration." In recent years, interest in lunar exploration has increased in numerous space programs around the globe, and the purpose of our study, in response to the ESA call, was to draw on the expertise of researchers and university students to examine science questions and technologies that could support human astrobiology activity on the Moon. In this mini review, we discuss astrobiology science questions of importance for a human presence on the surface of the Moon and we provide a summary of key instrumentation requirements to support a lunar astrobiology laboratory.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	767-782
Number of pages	16
Journal	Astrobiology
Volume	7
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2006.0082
Publication status	Published - Oct 2007

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LIFE-SUPPORT-SYSTEMS
LATE HEAVY BOMBARDMENT
PLANETARY PROTECTION
SPACE EXPLORATION
TERRESTRIAL PLANETS
IONIZING-RADIATION
SOLAR-SYSTEM
MOON
MARS
MISSION

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