Habitability on Early Mars and the Search for Biosignatures with the ExoMars Rover Vago, Jorge L. García Ruiz, Juan Manuel Pasteur Instrument Teams Landing Site Selection Working ExoMars Project Team Biosignatures ExoMars Landing sites Mars rover Search for life Finally, we would like to recognize the help and support of ESA, Roscosmos, the European states and agencies participating in the ExoMars program, and NASA. We really are doing this together for the benefit of all. The second ExoMars mission will be launched in 2020 to target an ancient location interpreted to have strong potential for past habitability and for preserving physical and chemical biosignatures (as well as abiotic/prebiotic organics). The mission will deliver a lander with instruments for atmospheric and geophysical investigations and a rover tasked with searching for signs of extinct life. The ExoMars rover will be equipped with a drill to collect material from outcrops and at depth down to 2 m. This subsurface sampling capability will provide the best chance yet to gain access to chemical biosignatures. Using the powerful Pasteur payload instruments, the ExoMars science team will conduct a holistic search for traces of life and seek corroborating geological context information. 2020-07-22T09:12:44Z 2020-07-22T09:12:44Z 2017-07 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Jorge L. Vago, Frances Westall, Pasteur Instrument Teams, Landing Site Selection Working Group, and Other Contributors, Andrew J. Coates, Ralf Jaumann, Oleg Korablev, Valérie Ciarletti, Igor Mitrofanov, Jean-Luc Josset, Maria Cristina De Sanctis, Jean-Pierre Bibring, Fernando Rull, Fred Goesmann, Harald Steininger, Walter Goetz, William Brinckerhoff, Cyril Szopa, François Raulin, Frances Westall, Howell G. M. Edwards, Lyle G. Whyte, Alberto G. Fairén, Jean-Pierre Bibring, John Bridges, Ernst Hauber, Gian Gabriele Ori, Stephanie Werner, Damien Loizeau, Ruslan O. Kuzmin, Rebecca M. E. Williams, Jessica Flahaut, François Forget, Jorge L. Vago, Daniel Rodionov, Oleg Korablev, Håkan Svedhem, Elliot Sefton-Nash, Gerhard Kminek, Leila Lorenzoni, Luc Joudrier, Viktor Mikhailov, Alexander Zashchirinskiy, Sergei Alexashkin, Fabio Calantropio, Andrea Merlo, Pantelis Poulakis, Olivier Witasse, Olivier Bayle, Silvia Bayón, Uwe Meierhenrich, John Carter, Juan Manuel García-Ruiz, Pietro Baglioni, Albert Haldemann, Andrew J. Ball, André Debus, Robert Lindner, Frédéric Haessig, David Monteiro, Roland Trautner, Christoph Voland, Pierre Rebeyre, Duncan Goulty, Frédéric Didot, Stephen Durrant, Eric Zekri, Detlef Koschny, Andrea Toni, Gianfranco Visentin, Martin Zwick, Michel van Winnendael, Martín Azkarate, Christophe Carreau, and the ExoMars Project Team.Astrobiology.Jul 2017.471-510. [http://doi.org/10.1089/ast.2016.1533] http://hdl.handle.net/10481/63098 10.1089/ast.2016.1533 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Atribución 3.0 España Mary Ann Liebert