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Discussion in the Lecture Room
The ESA room
Humidity chamber at DLR
Prof. Möhlmann's presentation at EPSC 2009
Hard work at Collegium Budapest
Mars@Colbud - opening by the rector Andrew Sors
Audience at the Press Conference
Opening of the poster exhibition by Elod Both
Hypothetic MSO's close to the surface
About analogues from deserts
Poster exhibition
Poster Exhibition
Discussion on the posters
Students from the University
The Red and the Black
Sample preparation
Model computation
Meeting at Tibor Ganti
The Mars Astrobiology Group
Dinner with the guests
Dinner with the guests
At the Mars Express conference
Szathmáry presenting the first results on DDSs
Szathmary about the DDS-MSO hypothesis ion Nice during the EGS
Horvath and Szathmay in Nice
Ori is talking about surface phenomena on Mars
Manribubia and Ganti in Hungary
Sazthmary and Horneck in Nice, 2002
Discussion between Coradini, Chicarro and Szathmary at ESTEC
Lunch at ESTEC
Winn Williams about his results from Antarctica
The audience in ESTEC
Meeting in ESTEC
Horvath in ESTEC
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Members of the ESA Mars Astrobiology Group at Collegium Budapest (Institute for Advanced Study) have been analyzing seasonally changing features and seepages on polar dunes of Mars since 2001. Interfacial water-covered grains with radiation shielding against UV may provide a tolerable microenvironment there.
Cryptobiotic crust communities were analyzed as partial analogues on Earth, showing adaptation to dryness, cold and a long dormant state. The DDS-MSO (Dark Dune Spot - Mars Surface Organism) hypothesis was developed, according to which ephemeral conditions are favourable for living organisms on Mars.
This hypothesis is compatible with all the recent discoveries of H2O and layered polar frost on Mars, and low-temperature metabolism on Earth. Click here for our publications and brief description of the model.
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