session 5

Title

Astrobiology and Exploration

Description

A new era os space exploration will soon expand into a global endeavour to achieve highly ambitious goals such as establishing human bases on the Moon, journeys to Mars and the construction of new infrastructures in space. Astrobiology plays a key role in the strategic search for organic compounds and life on Mars and other planetary objects in our solar system and can provide support in the preparation of human exploration endeavours. The session invites papers of astrobiological content supporting future robotic and human exploration missions.

Date

2014-10-01

Time

14:45

Room

716A

IPC members

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

• Co-Chair: Dr. Victoria Hipkin, Canadian Space Agency, Canada;

• Rapporteur: Dr. Cora S. Thiel, University of Zurich, Switzerland;