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Habitability on Early Mars and the Search for Biosignatures with the ExoMars Rover Vago, Jorge L. Westall, Frances Coates, Andrew J Jaumann, Ralf Korablev, Oleg Valérie, Ciarletti Mitrofanov, Igor Rull Pérez, Fernando The second ExoMars mission will be launched in 2020 to target an ancient location interpreted to have strong potential for past habitability and for preserving physical and chemical biosignatures (as well as abiotic/prebiotic organics). The mission will deliver a lander with instruments for atmospheric and geophysical investigations and a rover tasked with searching for signs of extinct life. The ExoMars rover will be equipped with a drill to collect material from outcrops and at depth down to 2 m. This subsurface sampling capability will provide the best chance yet to gain access to chemical biosignatures. Using the powerful Pasteur payload instruments, the ExoMars science team will conduct a holistic search for traces of life and seek corroborating geological context information. Key Words: Biosignatures—ExoMars—Landing sites—Mars rover—Search for life. Astrobiology 17, 471–510. 2019-03-26T09:33:27Z 2019-03-26T09:33:27Z 2017 info:eu-repo/semantics/article ASTROBIOLOGY, 2017, vol. 17, n. 6-7, p. 471-510 http://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/35238 10.1089/ast.2016.1533 eng https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/ast.2016.1533 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Mary Ann Liebert SI