Wiki source code of MASE Glacier as Mars Analogue site for microbial Space Exploration

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		1	=== Details ===
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		3	\|Acronym\|MASE
		4	\|Description\|Glacier as Mars Analogue site for microbial Space Exploration
		5	\|Principal Investigator (PI)\|Dr. Christine Moissl-Eichinger, Petra Rettberg
		6	\|Organisation \|Medical University Graz, Department of Internal Medicine, German Aerospace Center (DLR)
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		8	=== Summary ===
		9	Assessing the habitability of Mars and detecting life, if it was ever there, depends on the knowledge of life itself and its tolerance towards (extreme) environmental conditions. In particular, many combinations of stress, such as high radiation conditions combined with high salt and low temperature, relevant for early Mars, have not been investigated.
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		12	=== Objectives ===
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		14	Our overall aim in this project is to implement a step change in our understanding of Martian habitability and our ability to detect organisms that might have made use of habitable environments. We hypothesize, that:
		15	* The microbial diversity, being present at the AMADEE glacier site can be sampled under Mars simulation conditions
		16	* We are able to cultivate anaerobic microorganisms with different resistances from these sites
		17	* We are able to detect life in debris of the glacier using on-site and off-site experiments for the detection of microbial metabolic activity and biomarkers
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		19	=== Experiment Data ===
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