Atmospheric composition of exoplanets based on the thermal escape of gases and implications for habitability

Funding: This research has been funded by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, Kempe Foundation, The County Administrative Board of Norrbotten and Luleå University of Technology. M.-P.Z.'s research at CAB has been partially supported by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) project no. MDM-2017-0737 Unidad de Excelencia ‘María de Maeztu’- Centro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC). Acknowledgements: We thank all the referees for their valuable comments. We are grateful for their constructive remarks, which led to a significant improvement to the manuscript.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Calibration of ExoMars 2020 GTS (Ground Temperature Sensor) and its application on two band pyrometry

EPSC Abstracts Vol. 13, EPSC-DPS2019-1330-2, 2019 EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2019Non peer reviewedPublisher PD

Sub-liquid and Atmospheric Measurement (SAM) instrument to autonomously monitor the biochemistry of natural aquatic ecosystems

Open Access via the ACS Agreement Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación - PID2019-104205GB-C21; University of Aberdeen - SF10237-59 Funding This development work of the SAM instrument was undertaken with the help of the University of Aberdeen’s Round 3 of the “Internal Funding to Pump-Prime Interdisciplinary Research and Impact Activities” (SF10237–59) in 2021/22 and Dr. Allan and Norma Young Foundation “Lab starting grant” (CF95052-11). M.-P.Z. was supported by grant PID2019-104205GB-C21 funded by MCIN/AEI/v10.13039/501100011033. Acknowledgments The authors would like to acknowledge the support from the Allan and Norma Young Foundation. They thank and recognize the collaboration with the STFC-funded Boulby Underground Laboratory in Boulby Mine, North Yorkshire, UK, for providing access to deploy the SAM instrument in the brine pool at their facility. They also thank collaborators Dr. Deepak Kumaresan from Queen’s University Belfast and Alexandra Hillebrand-Voiculescu and Catalina Haidau from ″Emil Racovita″ Institute of Speleology, for the campaign to the sulfidic lake and Movile Cave in Mangalia, Romania, in October 2022 and for further testing and deployment of the SAM instrument.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Distribution and Morphologies of Transverse Aeolian Ridges in ExoMars 2020 Rover Landing Site

We thank the efforts of the guest editor and the reviewers for their suggestions in improving the paper. We acknowledge the Wallenberg Foundation and the Kempe Foundation for supporting our Mars research activities in general. We thank Scott Nowicki for providing us the TES-derived rock abundance global dataset for Mars. We thank NASA, JPL, and University of Arizona for providing HiRISE images and DTMs free of charge. The maps in various figures have been created using ArcGIS version 10.6.1 (http://desktop.arcgis.com/en/arcmap/latest/get-started/setup/arcgis-desktop-quick-start-guide.htm).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Defects on a pyrite(100) surface produce chemical evolution of glycine under inert conditions : experimental and theoretical approaches

Acknowledgements This work has been supported by the MINECO project ESP2017-89053. The Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial supported the work performed at CAB. EER is thankful to Javier Martin-Torres, Alfonso Hernandez-Laguna and C. M. Pradier for their support and suggestions. This Project has been partially funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) Project No. MDM-2017-0737 Unidad de Excelencia ‘‘Marıa de Maeztu’’-Centro de Astrobiologıa (CSIC-INTA).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

PRessure Optimized PowEred Respirator (PROPER) : a miniaturized wearable cleanroom and biosafety system for aerially transmitted viral infections such as COVID-19

Acknowledgements: The authors of the paper would like to acknowledge Andreas Nilsson from Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering of the Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Sweden, for his support in the procurement of components. MPZ has been partially funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) Project No. MDM-2017-0737 Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu”- Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA) and the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation project (ref. PID2019-104205GB-C21).Peer reviewedPublisher PD

An Optimized Active Sampling Procedure for Aerobiological DNA Studies

Funding The project was funded by the ‘Internal funding to Pump-prime Interdisciplinary Research and Impact Activities’ from the University of Aberdeen granted to T.M. J.B.R. is supported by QUADRAT NERC Doctoral Training Partnership, UKRI. M.-P.Z. was supported by grant PID2019-104205GB-C21 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. Acknowledgments The paper’s authors would like to acknowledge the support from the Allan and Norma Young Foundation. The paper’s authors would like to acknowledge the Microscopy and Histology Core Facility at the Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, for the sample preparation and training for scanning electron microscopy (SEM) images.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

Development of a wind retrieval method for low-speed low-pressure flows for ExoMars

Acknowledgements: The HABIT FM and EQM were manufactured by Omnisys Instruments AB, Sweden, in cooperation with the Luleå University of Technology (LTU). The HABIT project was funded by the Swedish National Space Agency (SNSA). We thank the ExoMars project team, European Space Agency (ESA), Roscosmos, Space Research Institute (IKI) and Omnisys Instruments AB for their hard work on the ExoMars 2022 mission. We acknowledge the Luleå University of Technology, the Wallenberg Foundation and the Kempe Foundation for support of the Mars research activities. ASS acknowledges the support of the LTU Graduate School of Space Technology. MPZ has been partially funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (AEI) Project No. MDM-2017-0737 Unidad de Excelencia “María de Maeztu”-Centro de Astrobiología (INTA-CSIC). We acknowledge the support of Mr. Jens Jacob Iversen and Dr. Jonathan P. Merrison from the Aarhus Wind Tunnel of the Aarhus University (Denmark).Peer reviewedPublisher PD