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ArticleAstrobiology2023

The Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies (ARADS) Project.

B Glass, D Bergman, V Parro, L Kobayashi, C Stoker, R Quinn, A Davila, P Willis, W Brinckerhoff, K Warren-Rhodes and 10 more

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Article in Astrobiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

B GlassNASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA.
D BergmanHoneybee Robotics, Pasadena, California, USA.
V ParroCentro de Astrobiología (CAB), CSIC-INTA, Torrejon de Ardoz, Spain.
L KobayashiNASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA.
C StokerNASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA.
R QuinnNASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA.
A DavilaNASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA.
P WillisNASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, USA.
W BrinckerhoffNASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA.
K Warren-RhodesNASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA.
M B WilhelmNASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA.
L CaceresUniversity of Antofagasta, Antofagasta, Chile.
J DiRuggieroJohns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
K ZacnyHoneybee Robotics, Pasadena, California, USA.
M Moreno-PazCentro de Astrobiología (CAB), CSIC-INTA, Torrejon de Ardoz, Spain.
A DaveNASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA.
S SeitzNASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA.
A GrubisicNASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA.
M CastilloNASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA.
R BonaccorsiNASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, California, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

With advances in commercial space launch capabilities and reduced costs to orbit, humans may arrive on Mars within a decade. Both to preserve any signs of past (and extant) martian life and to protect the health of human crews (and Earth's biosphere), it will be necessary to assess the risk of cross-contamination on the surface, in blown dust, and into the near-subsurface (where exploration and resource-harvesting can be reasonably anticipated). Thus, evaluating for the presence of life and biosignatures may become a critical-path Mars exploration precursor in the not-so-far future, circa 2030. This Special Collection of papers from the Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies (ARADS) project describes many of the scientific, technological, and operational issues associated with searching for and identifying biosignatures in an extreme hyperarid region in Chile's Atacama Desert, a well-studied terrestrial Mars analog environment. This paper provides an overview of the ARADS project and discusses in context the five other papers in the ARADS Special Collection, as well as prior ARADS project results.

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ExobiologyMarsDustExtraterrestrial EnvironmentHumansDustAnalog missionAstrobiologyAtacama DesertAutomated drillingBiosignaturesSearch for life

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PMID38054949
PMCPMC10750311

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