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(English) The martian link

(English) She feels at ease in the lab, surrounded by microscopes to unveil the inner secrets of rocks. As she swings back and forth between a meteorite sample, the eyepiece and the screen, she is looking for the organic compounds that will tell her more about life in the Universe.

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(English) Mars revisited

(English) If aliens looked for life on a future Earth with its oceans and fertile lands lost to time, where would they start?

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(English) A Sherlock Holmes for Mars

(English) The crime scene is an impact crater and the mystery is an elusive one for scientists – detecting life’s fingerprints on Mars.

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Luca Parmitano

Bones, bacteria and nutrition – European science in space

For eight days the International Space Station operated at full capacity with nine astronauts. With the extra set of hands in space the science teams on Earth got busy scheduling the astronauts’ days to get the most research time out of their time in orbit.

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Alexander Gerst

Closing the loop on Space Station science

Scientist in ESA’s Human Spaceflight programme Elizabeth Heider shares her experiences of a recent science debrief with ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst following the 2018 Horizons mission. The version below has been edited for length. See the full article on LinkedIn.

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