The search for (bio)chemical complexity in the Solar System: in situ analysis of putative prebiotic polymers on Mars and icy moons

Fairén, Alberto

The search for (bio)chemical complexity in the Solar System: in situ analysis of putative prebiotic polymers on Mars and icy moons

Alberto G. Fairén¹, Javier Gomez-Elvira², Carlos Briones³, Olga Prieto-Ballesteros³, Jose A Rodriguez-Manfredi³, Tomas Belenguer², Raquel Lopez Heredero² and Victor Parro³, (1)Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain, and Dept. of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States, (2)Payload & Space Science Department. Insituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA), Madrid, Spain, (3)Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain