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The search for life in the solar system.

PLANETARY SCIENCE: Europa vs. Titan

Planetary science. Europa vs. Titan.

NASA: Delays in Mars Mission Will Ripple Across Space Science

NASA. Delays in Mars mission will ripple across space science.

Astrophysics: Quest for a habitable world.

Phoenix fades away.

The possible origin and persistence of life on Enceladus and detection of biomarkers in the plume.

Biosignatures in ancient rocks: a summary of discussions at a field workshop on biosignatures in ancient rocks.

The 2005 MARTE Robotic Drilling Experiment in Río Tinto, Spain: objectives, approach, and results of a simulated mission to search for life in the Martian subsurface.

Design and practices for use of automated drilling and sample handling in MARTE while minimizing terrestrial and cross contamination.

Science results from a Mars drilling simulation (Río Tinto, Spain) and ground truth for remote science observations.

SOLID2: an antibody array-based life-detector instrument in a Mars Drilling Simulation Experiment (MARTE).

The MARTE VNIR imaging spectrometer experiment: design and analysis.

The subsurface geology of Río Tinto: material examined during a simulated Mars drilling mission for the Mars Astrobiology Research and Technology Experiment (MARTE).

Underground habitats in the Río Tinto basin: a model for subsurface life habitats on Mars.

Visible-near infrared point spectrometry of drill core samples from Río Tinto, Spain: results from the 2005 Mars Astrobiology Research and Technology Experiment (MARTE) drilling exercise.

Planetary science. Culture wars over how to find an ancient niche for life on Mars.

Ancient water sites for next rover.

Planetary science. Successes, past and future.