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

{{quote|The burden of proof for confirming the existence of life outside of our planet will be unprecedented in scientific history. Finding extraterrestrial microorganisms (whether fossil or extant) would provide the most direct evidence of life. Given planetary protection concerns, we are more likely to sample fossil microorganisms, but the biogenicity of ancient terrestrial microfossils is greatly debated owing to often poor preservation. Thus, other biosignatures are typically required to establish the biogenicity of putative ancient microfossils and other microbial structures. By developing additional novel biosignatures and combining multiple techniques for establishing biogenicity, we can find evidence of life that is more convincing. Such techniques would provide invaluable tools for the search for extraterrestrial life. This session seeks to highlight work being done to develop novel biosignatures or to use established biosignatures to search for new evidence of early life on Earth and/or past or present life on Mars.}}

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{{cot|Main topics relevant to search for extant live in possible present day habitats for life on Mars}}

'''''Biosignature Detection on Mars: Where, What, When, Why, and How?'''''