Friday, May 9, 2008
To Biology, to Mars
Waiting for a long time for an interdisciplinary science article? An exciting new project to Mars is packing in astronomy, physics, chemistry and biology. A new probe is going be launched onto the surface of Mars again, and thanks to the rate of miniaturisation, it's packed with what we might call a lab.If there is life on Mars, it might soon be coaxed out of hiding by a new instrument designed to detect the subtle chemical traces of biological activity.The Urey instrument, which will fly on the European Space Agency's ExoMars mission in 2013, has just received $2 million in funding from NASA...
*Psst, there are enantiomers in the article.
