Thursday, March 1, 2007

Sensor being developed to check for life on Mars

http://www.marstoday.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=22020

NASA scientists have been working on and excavating tool called the Urey that can not only check for the faintest traces of life on Mars but also determine whether or not these life forms were produced by anything alive. NASA selected Urey for an instrument development project worth over $750,000 and is planned to be put to use during the European ExoMars rover mission set to launch in 2013. Urey will be able to detect key molecules associated with life at a sensitivity roughly a million times greater than previous instrumentation.

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