Possible present day habitats for life on Mars (Including potential Mars special regions): Difference between revisions

== Conferences on the topic of present day habitats for life on Mars ==

* 2013, February 4-6, conference on the ''Present Day Habitability of Mars'' was held in 2013 in UCLA.<ref>{{cite web|last1=David Paige and Charles Cockell|title=Report to MEPAG on The Present-Day Habitability of Mars Workshop|url=https://mepag.jpl.nasa.gov/meeting/2013-02/present_day_habitability_mepag_report.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=CASE|first1=ELIZABETH|title=UCLA holds Mars habitability conference|url=http://dailybruin.com/2013/02/07/ucla-holds-mars-habitability-conference/|website=Daily Bruin}}</ref><ref name="PresentDayHabitability">{{cite web|author1=UCLA Institute for Planets and Exoplanets, The UK Center for Astrobiology and the NASA Astrobiology Institute|title=The Present-Day Habitability of Mars 2013 - Includes link to video recordings of the talks which you can stream online|url=http://planets.ucla.edu/meetings/past-meetings/pdhm2013/|website=UCLA Institute for Planets and Exoplanets|date=February 4–6, 2013}}</ref>.

*Theme: Solar System Sites

*Session: Mars

*Summary:

{{quote|Finding evidence of extant life on Mars would be a watershed event. We have evidence on Mars for many environments that may have been habitable in the past, but the range of possible biogeochemistries those environments allow, the co-evolution of those environments with life, the specific niches that are most likely to host detectable biosignatures, and the path forward to explore those environments are still key unknowns. We invite contributions that (1) explore the succession of physical and environmental processes and their combination on Early Mars, (2) evaluate (ideally quantitatively!) the geo/environmental context of potential sites for biological exploration of Mars, (3) detail the most promising locations, instrument concepts, and strategies for investigating these ecosystems, (4) define the relevant objects, substances or patterns that could serve as definitive biosignatures for martian life, and (5) investigate metabolisms, survival strategies, and energy sources that may be relevant to the search for biosignatures on Mars.}}

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* 2019, January 29 - February 1: ''Mars Extant Life: What’s Next?''" to discuss the "numerous extant life hypotheses that have been advanced over the years and that have evolved in response to discoveries by on-going Mars missions."<ref>[https://www.hou.usra.edu/meetings/lifeonmars2019/ Mars Extant Life: What’s Next? scheduled for January 29–February 1, 2019] at the National Cave and Karst Research Institute, 400-1 Cascades Ave., Carlsbad, New Mexico.</ref>