session 5

Title

Astrobiology and Exploration

type

oral

Description

Astrobiology plays a key role in the preparation of space exploration endeavours to find life in our solar system and beyond. Investigating habitability constraints and instrument technology to search for organic compounds and life provides support to current and future robotic missions to inner and outer solar system bodies as well as human exploration missions targeting the Earth-Moon-Mars space. The session invites papers of astrobiological content supporting space exploration.

Date

2012-10-04

Time

10:15

Room

TS12 (Sala Stromboli, Palacongressi)

IPC members

• Chairman: Dr. Petra Rettberg, Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Germany;

• Chairman: Prof. Pascale Ehrenfreund, COSPAR, France;

• Rapporteur: Dr. Inge ten Kate, SETI Institute, United States;