Planetary Exploration: Habitats and Terrestrial Analogs

Dear Colleagues,

Planetary exploration is moving at a fast pace as we learn about environmental conditions on various planetary bodies in our solar system and beyond. Habitable conditions at some time during the history of the solar system have been proposed to have existed on Mars, Venus, and a number of icy moons of the outer solar system, some of which may still exist today. For this “LIFE” Special Issue, we particularly encourage submissions describing habitable conditions on planetary bodies and of how life could have interacted with them; also a description of analog environments on Earth from which we can learn about possible adaptations and life strategies on other planets and moons.

Prof. Dr. Dirk Schulze-Makuch
Dr. Alberto G. Fairen
Guest Editors

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