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Schulze-Makuch, Ph.D.
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old fashioned elbow grease. A Bold New Chance for Mars
Exploration! tag:www.huffingtonpost.com,2012:/theblog//3.1510355
2012-05-11T15:44:30-04:00 2012-07-11T05:12:13-04:00 Dirk
Schulze-Makuch, Ph.D. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dirk-
schulzemakuch-phd/ To address the question of life on Mars in a
cost-conscientious way, we called for a mission to Mars with a
strong and comprehensive life detection component. At the heart
of our proposal, just published in the journal Planetary Space
and Science, is a small fleet of penetrators that can punch into
the Martian soil and run a range of tests for signs of ancient
or existing life. We call this mission BOLD and it is both an
acronym for Biological Oxidant and Life Detection and a nod to
the proposal's ambiti