A team of researchers has travelled to a remote Arctic island in the hopes of better understanding the possibility of life on Mars.
Astrobiologist Haley Sapers, an adjunct professor at York University in the Lassonde School of Engineering, is leading the team at the McGill Arctic Research Station, or MARS, on Axel Heiberg Island. The uninhabited island is in Nunavut's Qikiqtaaluk region and has conditions similar to the red planet.Under the 24-hour midnight sun, they plan to study super-salty cold springs that release methane on Gypsum Hill, about a 45-minute hike from the research station.
Its presence on Mars could be evidence of past or present life, or indicate areas on the planet that could be inhabited in the future. "We need a new type of instrument that doesn't take as many resources that can take really fast, really sensitive measurements of methane," she said.
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