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“Strategies of Life Detection”: Summary and Outlook

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  1. International Space Science Institute, Hallerstrasse 6, 3012, Bern, Switzerland

    Oliver Botta

  2. Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA, 92093-0212, USA

    Jeffrey L. Bada

  3. Robotics & Planetary Exploration Laboratory, Centro de Astrobiología (INTA/CSIC), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial, Crtra. Ajalvir km.4 - 28850 Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, 28850, Spain

    Javier Gomez-Elvira

  4. Department of Geology, University of Liege, 17 Allée du 6 Août, Bât. B18, Sart-Tilman Liège, 4000, Belgium

    Emmanuelle Javaux

  5. Laboratoire d’Astrophysique de Bordeaux, CNRS, Université Bordeaux 1, BP89, 33270, Floirac, France

    Franck Selsis

  6. Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Roger Summons

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Botta, O., Bada, J.L., Gomez-Elvira, J. et al. “Strategies of Life Detection”: Summary and Outlook. Space Sci Rev 135, 371–380 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-008-9357-9

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