Group Members
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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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